We don't have a thread about how to return to stock HD2 with latest ROM after you have messed with it. I bricked my HD2 trying to go back to stock.
Can someone with more experience and chip in if this is the proper way of going back to stock?
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/22/how-to-get-the-htc-hd2-back-to-stock/
I'd like to document how to go back to stock from different ROMs on T-Mobile and what not to do to brick your phone.
1. Do not install RUU_Leo_HTC_WWE_1.43.405.1_Radio_Signed_15.26.50.07U_2.04.50_22_2_Ship.exe
Thank you.
yesterday i reverted back to the stock rom you mentioned but (luckily) i have not encountered any problem..
S2K_MoZo said:
...I'd like to document how to go back to stock from different ROMs on T-Mobile and what not to do to brick your phone....
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The main point of getting the stock T-Mobile US rom is to download it from T-Mobile official site - if you are lost in digits and abbreviations in the rom names.
You should go there http://dl.htc.com/ruudownload/t-mobileUS/DeviceDownloads.aspx?pid=leo2 , insert your IMEI and download latest available software update. It's a version 3.14.531.1 named RUU_Leo_1_5_TMOUS_3.14.531.1_Radio_Signed_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_2_Ship.exe and IMEI check will make you sure that it's exactly for your model.
It was written so many times here and you anyway decided that one more thread about it will be more useful than older ones.
Sorry about creating a new thread but I could not find any info on how to get it back to stock, the ones I found were obviously not for T-Mobile which I learn the hard way.
Does anyone know how to bring it back to life?
When I plug it in, I see in Device Manager as:
Qualcomm CMDA Technologies MSM.
I can't turn the phone on at all. When I plug it in, I hear the sound that computer makes when you plug in USB Device but nothing else happens.
Returning to stock is the same for tmous as it is for regular. The key difference is that if you use the wrong stock rom on a regular it doesn't brick it,, which is what you have done to yours.
Had you used a tmous stock rom it would have been fine,,,, if you had used hspl3 /Hspl4 to remove hspl before flashing the wrong rom it wouldn't have let you flash and it would still work.
There are hundreds of threads documenting this.
If you still have warranty, use it. Its so bricked they can't tell you screwed with it.
other options - JTAG or new mainboard.
Download and install the lastest Windows 6.5 update from your carrier to get back to stock.
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Sorry about creating a new thread but I could not find any info on how to get it back to stock, the ones I found were obviously not for T-Mobile which I learn the hard way.
Does anyone know how to bring it back to life?
When I plug it in, I see in Device Manager as:
Qualcomm CMDA Technologies MSM.
I can't turn the phone on at all. When I plug it in, I hear the sound that computer makes when you plug in USB Device but nothing else happens.
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There are people who offer JTAG services specifically for the HD2. It'll cost you $50 give or take. But they can unbrick it for sure.
http://www.mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=785
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Hey, I just tried to install DCD's newest ROM and it looks as if i may of bricked my phone. When i connect it to my PC, Active Sync will not even pick it up. this happened right after i ran Hard-SPL-MFG to unlock the phone... I did try and run the titan_exitbl but no luck. I also attempted to run the relocker but i would not even run.. any ideas?
thanks!
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Are you at the 3 color screen? If so you need to unplug the USB and replug it again as per the instructions. You MUST follow the instructions EXACTLY or your flashing will be very scary experience.
If you are not at the 3 color screen, you need to get back to the bootloader by pressing power+camera and soft reset. This will get you to the 3 color screen. Then have a look at the version of bootloader you have. If it doesnt say Olipro 1.20 or 2.40 you still have the locked bootloader and you can flash a stock carrier rom. If you have 2.40 you can flash to the 3.16+ rom and then flash the new radio this way or via sd card install which will be more painless and less scary.
If you dont know what an sd card flash is, I would search the forums here. Over at ppcgeeks you can look up imcokeman's posts and see instructions how to do a sd flash.
If you are are real noob, I would suggest staying with non gps roms at this stage because the change of radio rom needed to enable you to flash a gps rom will almost certainly lead to sleepless nights wondering if you have bricked your machine.
Most important thing to realise is that the machine is almost certainly not bricked. But you might have a few more scary moments before you get your machine back working again. You might also need to call your carriers service desk a number of times to get your provisioning data back working.
Check all the way through these two posts and dont sweat too much. With effort you will get your machine back. The answer to your problems is listed in one of these threads, but you need to dig a fair bit to find it. The posts contain lots of problems that people had flashing this rom, and I am sure your exact problem was there and solved. Its I believe somewhere in the second link I have listed here.
Good luck. i feel for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371314
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=362566 particularly this bit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1856032&postcount=216
thanks ill take a look, as a side note i am currently at the verizon logo, i can boot to the bootloader screen (red,green,blue) and when i connect the USB cord it does switch from Serial to USB on the screen... but gets stuck there. Active Sync shows no device connected.... I am running 2.40.Olipro
Thanks again
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thanks ill take a look, as a side note i am currently at the verizon logo, i can boot to the bootloader screen (red,green,blue) and when i connect the USB cord it does switch from Serial to USB on the screen... but gets stuck there. Active Sync shows no device connected.... I am running 2.40.Olipro
Thanks again
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It doesn't need to active sync. Once it switches to USB you are ready to flash.
Stuck at Verizon Screen/HTC Mobilty Screen
If you are stuck at the VZW screen then you have only flashed one of the two essential parts. You need both (ROM and RADIO) to make it work. 3.16+ ROM will not work with the old radio. You need 3.27 radio.
Use the camera+power+soft reset and you can flash the one (new radio or new ROM) that you are missing.
See dcd's thread about the 2.3.2 rom. He has added a HUGE new disclaimer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1952956&postcount=1
Well nothing really worked so i used a sd card to flash back to the stock verizon ROM, i then attempted it again and got it all working!!!
I have a 3125 that I acquired in a semi-bricked state. Bought it for spare parts, but think that maybe I can get it working. It will not boot to WM mode. Boots to bootloader with buttons held at power-on, which reports IPL 4.01.0001 and SPL 4.01.0000.
It recognizes the USB and the update tool recognizes it. But when the update starts, it never gets past 0% on the phone and the update tool eventually errors out and reports I need a newer update tool.
If I put in a µSD with the update file, it goes to the white screen briefly, saying it is checking the SD card, then goes back to tri-color.
I have tried both methods with the original Cingular ROM and the updated one. The µSD is properly recognized by a working phone with bootloader 2.04 (instructs me to press the key to perform the update, though I have not done so).
I have seen here that you must flash via µSD using only an official ROM, which I am doing, but I think that perhaps I don't have the correct official ROM to match this bootloader.
I do not know the history of the phone, so don't know how it came to have bootloader 4.01 or if the bricking happened at that time or later.
This is similar to, but not quite the same as, other threads I have seen where phones bricked after a bad load of WM6 and for which I have not seen a resolution. AFAIK, this was taken out of service before the WM6 ROM was cooked, but an attempt may have been made to load just about anything out there.
At this point, I don't really care what version of ROM gets in there, because I can use the informtation here to put what I want in once I can get to WM5. So, any light on what ROM I should try?
Anybody?
Well, my other 3125 is acting up (randomly resets itself) and now I'd REALLY like to get this one working. Anybody have a clue as to what I can try?
randomly reboots usually means that your battery door is loose. You ever get that "extra" one working?
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I have a 3125 with the same ipl/spl and have loaded several roms with no problem.
The link is for the official htc/cingular release. Try via ruu (with sd card removed) first, then if it does not work try the sd method. gl
http://download.america.htc.com/RUU_STAR100_4.1.502.5_02.79.30_CWS_SHIP.exe
lewnetoons said:
I have a 3125 with the same ipl/spl and have loaded several roms with no problem.
The link is for the official htc/cingular release. Try via ruu (with sd card removed) first, then if it does not work try the sd method. gl
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I have tried both official ROMs with the same results both via PC and via µSD. What is the source of that IPL/SPL? (What ROM image loads it)? I suspect that if I can get THAT ROM image, then I can ressurect the phone. Maybe not and it really is bricked and the error message isn't really accurate.
Yours likely is SuperCID, so you can load anything, where this one appears to not be.
For the one who suggested the problem is the door: unfortunately not. A new door was one thing I did get from the bricked phone. Might be the actual door switch, though. I could try disabling it. Anybody know if its NO or NC?
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I will try to find out which rom loaded the ipl/spl, the only unlocking done on the phone is before I change a rom, I run the surrealnetworks cab. (app unlock)
will let you know what I find out reference the ipl/spl
the other thing you might want to try, is download all of the roms and run them, they are listed int he first sticky.
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I have a 3125 that I acquired in a semi-bricked state. Bought it for spare parts, but think that maybe I can get it working. It will not boot to WM mode. Boots to bootloader with buttons held at power-on, which reports IPL 4.01.0001 and SPL 4.01.0000.
It recognizes the USB and the update tool recognizes it. But when the update starts, it never gets past 0% on the phone and the update tool eventually errors out and reports I need a newer update tool.
If I put in a µSD with the update file, it goes to the white screen briefly, saying it is checking the SD card, then goes back to tri-color.
I have tried both methods with the original Cingular ROM and the updated one. The µSD is properly recognized by a working phone with bootloader 2.04 (instructs me to press the key to perform the update, though I have not done so).
I have seen here that you must flash via µSD using only an official ROM, which I am doing, but I think that perhaps I don't have the correct official ROM to match this bootloader.
I do not know the history of the phone, so don't know how it came to have bootloader 4.01 or if the bricking happened at that time or later.
This is similar to, but not quite the same as, other threads I have seen where phones bricked after a bad load of WM6 and for which I have not seen a resolution. AFAIK, this was taken out of service before the WM6 ROM was cooked, but an attempt may have been made to load just about anything out there.
At this point, I don't really care what version of ROM gets in there, because I can use the informtation here to put what I want in once I can get to WM5. So, any light on what ROM I should try?
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I have exactly the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?
Timmoi said:
I have exactly the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?
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No, and I've seen even more folks with phones in this condition after a bad WM6 load and still no solution.
My best guess right now is that whatever crashes the system during a load somehow corrupts the boot loader and we are therefore SOL.
I've solved my random resetting problem by acquiring yet another phone with a bad keypad and swapping out my old keypad into it. So my need is no longer critical, but I'd still love to find a solution.
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No, and I've seen even more folks with phones in this condition after a bad WM6 load and still no solution.
My best guess right now is that whatever crashes the system during a load somehow corrupts the boot loader and we are therefore SOL.
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Just what I was affraid of. Thanks anyway for the answer.
Tiger Shark said:
I've solved my random resetting problem by acquiring yet another phone with a bad keypad and swapping out my old keypad into it. So my need is no longer critical, but I'd still love to find a solution.
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That's just what I had in mind already. Hope to find some nice and cheap Startrek on Ebay or something.
Try this Full ROM:
RUU_STAR100_4.1.502.5_02.79.30_CWS_SHIP.exe
I have the same IPL/SPL version as yours. I always use this FULL ROM to flash my cell phone when I had problem with my customized ROM.
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Try this Full ROM:
RUU_STAR100_4.1.502.5_02.79.30_CWS_SHIP.exe
I have the same IPL/SPL version as yours. I always use this FULL ROM to flash my cell phone when I had problem with my customized ROM.
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Tried it, but without any luck
Thanks anyway!
Hi, my phone was working just fine (i had Miri's HD2 v 19.0 and i think a 2.10 radio). Anyway, I also have a version of Android on my phone that didnt work right (the person on the other end had that robot voice). So I was told that to fix this problem I needed to change around the different ROMs to fix the Android problem. So tonight I flashed the stock ROM back on there (because I read that it's not good to go from cooked ROM to cooked ROM). It completed then just shut off. Nothing. All black screen with not even the light on top working. I just read through the thread below, and the battery is out right now and will stay out for a couple hours then i'll try to put it back in because it seemed to work for that guy. Any other suggestions? Thank you soooo much in advance for any help.
If I cant get it to work at all, it is still under warranty and I have insurance. (When you send your phone in and its under warranty, they send out a phone to you first, then when you get the phone, you send the defective phone back). So I could do that. But since it wont start I wont be able to get HSPL off of there before sending it back. Is everyone 100% sure that HSPL voids your warranty? If so, should I like break the screen or do some other damage to the phone before sending it in?
you havent yet mentioned what model hd2 it is and what stock rom you flashed, and whether you used usb or sd card to flash it, or which version of hspl it was, nothing of any use diagnostically
Its a T-Mobile phone, i used hspl 3 and i flashed through usb. The ROM that I tried to install was "RUU_Leo_HTC_WWE_1.48.405.2_Radio_Signed_15.28.50.07U_2.05.51.05_2_Ship"
I hope this is what you need.
After thousands words, hundreds attempts I'm giving up and bringing up this discussion on this forum..I really hope your experience and deep knowledge of subject finally will help me..I live overseas and use to order HTC HD2 T-mobile for my friends and some times just for sale..It was my 7-th T-mobile HTC HD2 when I got problem with flashing custom ROM...I installed HSPL 2.08 and started to flash my usual custom ROM via USB for T-mobile 1024,I took out sim card and memory stick before flashing..When I finished I did a soft reset and got frozen STICK TOGETHER screen...Phone just stuck...Forgot to say that before flashing I format device with Task 29..So I format it again and flash one more time,process itself was successful , but again I got STICK TOGETHER and that's it...I decided to flash another radio, CORRECT one (50) special fot T-mobile 1024, after several updates error phone just died..I got a brick, I couldn't even go to bootloader mode..I reanimate device with JTAG, and tried almost all official ROMs, I flashed them via usb, using memory card..Sometimes during flashing it stopes and I have to reboot, sometimes i got a sign on screen that update is completed, but when I turn device on nothing happened..I tried MTTY method, didn't help...I don't really know what to do now..May be I missed something important but as I said I'm not a noob already, and have red tonnes of information regarding flashing ROMS... Any ideas would be highly appreciated, i still hope that is just software problem not hardware, otherwise I can just throw it away...thanks for reading this story
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After thousands words, hundreds attempts I'm giving up and bringing up this discussion on this forum..I really hope your experience and deep knowledge of subject finally will help me..I live overseas and use to order HTC HD2 T-mobile for my friends and some times just for sale..It was my 7-th T-mobile HTC HD2 when I got problem with flashing custom ROM...I installed HSPL 2.08 and started to flash my usual custom ROM via USB for T-mobile 1024,I took out sim card and memory stick before flashing..When I finished I did a soft reset and got frozen STICK TOGETHER screen...Phone just stuck...Forgot to say that before flashing I format device with Task 29..So I format it again and flash one more time,process itself was successful , but again I got STICK TOGETHER and that's it...I decided to flash another radio, CORRECT one (50) special fot T-mobile 1024, after several updates error phone just died..I got a brick, I couldn't even go to bootloader mode..I reanimate device with JTAG, and tried almost all official ROMs, I flashed them via usb, using memory card..Sometimes during flashing it stopes and I have to reboot, sometimes i got a sign on screen that update is completed, but when I turn device on nothing happened..I tried MTTY method, didn't help...I don't really know what to do now..May be I missed something important but as I said I'm not a noob already, and have red tonnes of information regarding flashing ROMS... Any ideas would be highly appreciated, i still hope that is just software problem not hardware, otherwise I can just throw it away...thanks for reading this story
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sorry for "stupid" answer,but...have you flash radio FIRST and rom than??I know,you're not a noob,but sometimes things more 'simple and obvious **** you
I had similar issues, it turned out to be a haware problem. HTC replaced the main board in the phone.
sorry to hear that
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Yeah, you either need a new motherboard or use JTAG to reflash the bootloader..
Read here
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sorry for "stupid" answer,but...have you flash radio FIRST and rom than??I know,you're not a noob,but sometimes things more 'simple and obvious **** you
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I flash ROM first and after i got problems with booting tried to resolve with flashing radio...anyway I guess it is hardware problems...It's vibrating time to time i go to boot loader mode,however it is ok when I reinstall HSPL, I still can see WE hacked it ...tofay I flashed an Ebergy ROM and it said that update was successful, but again when I turn device on I stuck on STICK TOGETHER ..Damn it,I'll try to flash radio, because I haven't had a success with it..By the way what abo0ut goldcard method, I don't really know what is it and how it can help..thanks
Mind you I temporary bricked them, but I've yet to this day tried rooting a phone, and never had things go smoothly.
Any guide I try to follow just so happens to be the wrong one, or isn't thorough enough in its directions... Theres always some missing software, or missing details on what to do when you hit a road block, so here is my story so someone can point me in the right direction...
I bought this LG Optimus G LS970 on eBay, and apparently it was already rooted, and it had some sprint apps on it so I guess its the sprint version of the phone. Anyways I notice there are some photos on the phone, so start plugging in the the phone to my pc only to find that i cant access files.... I google some questions, start holding buttons trying to get into whatever boot or recovery mode or some mode i dont understand.
Turns out I got something called Team Win Recovery Project v2.6.0.0 flashed on my phone.... I don't quite get what all these options are, but all I see are wipe options and I'm thinking "Hey this will get me back to factory settings and maybe i can flash a barebones android jellybean whatever (I dont know what os is called on a phone) So I start checking boxes and wiping things...
I soon find out that my device is telling me I don't have an OS. Of ****ing course it doesn't. I realized I just deleted it, because it told me I deleted it.
Well atleast I still have this recovery dohicky so not all is lost.
I start reading unbick guides, and of course I dont know what they mean, I just download every link they tell me to and run them. I install "drivers" and even then, when I plug the phone into my PC, I still get "Did not install" popups even if "LGUnitedMobileDriver_S4981MAN38AP22_ML_WHQL_Ver_3.8.1" said it installed correctly....
I open up this Original LG Firmware thing, and asks for my phone's model and serial number... Just what the hell is my phone's model? eBay listing said E973, the back of the phone says LS970, that useless mobile tool that wont let me download additional drivers says its called LG-LS970, and google results call it LGLS970....
And of course I don't know my phones serial or whatever a "imeieieie" is because I don't have an os to tell me that (guides don't tell me how to get this on a bricked phone and google result is useless)...
So I cand download this thing called a kdz because #1 it wont let me, and #2, and google just doesnt have a download link for it.
All I wanted was a rooted lg optimus g with a nexus-like experience on it without bloatware, and I somehow manage to brick my device within minutes of owning it, what do you think I should do.
I did hold down Vol - to get into some black screen that says "SERIAL" with a number, but that number doesnt seem to work with that lg firmware downloader thing. What do?
Super easy fix. Get an external sd card. Put a ROM on it. I recommend one of these http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2067871 the latest version is Stock Jellybean of our phones. OR is you want CM10 use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2411406 . Be sure to download ROM+GAPPS for CM10. I recommend those since you probably don't know if your phone has the updated partitions.
Anyway put whichever you want on the External SD card. Reboot back into recovery TWRP (Team Win Recovery). Wipe Data/Cache/Dalvik. Go back then Install the files you put on the External SD card.
Ls970 is sprint version. Only att version has external SD.
Sent from my Optimus G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
DeathmonkeyGTX said:
Ls970 is sprint version. Only att version has external SD.
Sent from my Optimus G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Oh wow I read that some many times and it just didn't click. Well it's much hard now. To OP, you should ask in your designated forum. This one is for the AT&T model. The easiest way is to find out how they restore their phones to stock. Probable LGNPST or something similar. Or install ADB, then push a ROM file to the internal, then flash in recovery. You're gonna have to do some research. But it's still easily do-able. As for the issues with the drivers, someone over there should have a link to alternative ones. But you can google "universal ADB drivers" and those should work.
I used LGNPST with a positive result. The hardest ****ing part was finding whatever-necessary file I was supposed to flash to the device. It took me hours to find it (not much help from XDA) and I was never clear if the file I washed, was indeed the stock rom the device came with.
The device now has startup and shutdown animation and jingles I wasn't familiar with (Different from what I got the phone with)
What I know is, the ebay Listing was for a E973 from West Virginia with abunch of Sprint apps on it.
But E973 is said to be a Canadian model? But Canada doesnt have sprint? And the phone says LS970?
I don't know whats this phones origins are, I just know I flashed a file called LS970ZV7_02.SV7_02.P25006.tot which told me to rename to bin, it flashed an outdated, possibly mismatched version of android, and from update to update I eventually got back to 4.1.2 but had new animation startup stuff...
My phone came pre-rooted and pre-recovery, but this recent flash killed those and now im looking to get back to that point. I'm unaware if my radios or whatever are jacked up or not because I never intended to use the device with a service as I get by just fine on Wifi only.
I found something called GAIO but the original page is offline and i cant download it.
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I used LGNPST with a positive result. The hardest ****ing part was finding whatever-necessary file I was supposed to flash to the device. It took me hours to find it (not much help from XDA) and I was never clear if the file I washed, was indeed the stock rom the device came with.
The device now has startup and shutdown animation and jingles I wasn't familiar with (Different from what I got the phone with)
What I know is, the ebay Listing was for a E973 from West Virginia with abunch of Sprint apps on it.
But E973 is said to be a Canadian model? But Canada doesnt have sprint? And the phone says LS970?
I don't know whats this phones origins are, I just know I flashed a file called LS970ZV7_02.SV7_02.P25006.tot which told me to rename to bin, it flashed an outdated, possibly mismatched version of android, and from update to update I eventually got back to 4.1.2 but had new animation startup stuff...
My phone came pre-rooted and pre-recovery, but this recent flash killed those and now im looking to get back to that point. I'm unaware if my radios or whatever are jacked up or not because I never intended to use the device with a service as I get by just fine on Wifi only.
I found something called GAIO but the original page is offline and i cant download it.
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Well, by your own admission, you said you needed to flash the LS970 tot file, which wouldn't be in this forum, the AT&T LG Optimus G is the E970, it's distinct in that the back glass has the AT&T logo, for one. On the bottom center on the back glass it also says "LG-E970"
On the left side of the device, with the volume buttons, below them is a tab that pops open for the micro SDCARD and SIM card.
If the phone you hold in your hands doesn't have these distinctions, and you start flashing stuff from THIS forum and not the LS970 (aka Sprint LG Optimus G) You very well might brick, temporary or not, all over again.
That being said, with the correct kernel, MANY of our roms work just fine for your phone, but research and reading is a prerequisite for such.
sprint lgog forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1928
Welcome to the mobile world, where everyone does whatever the **** they want when developing a phone, and people in their free time struggle to fix it!