Ok, well I screwed this up pretty badly.
I was trying to accept the OTA, but I botched a system file replacement and got stuck at the red Verizon V.
I have a fairly recent Titanium backup, so I figured I'd flash the 23C .kdz and get back to stock that way. I used this file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/vzw-vs985c01-kdz-t3077799
It seemed to have completed fine and rebooted, but now Im stuck at the LG boot logo.
What I do wrong? How do I fix?
EDIT: I realized I had to flash in CSE mode as opposed to normal mode, so I'm back up now.
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So my buddy bought a "new" LGOG on Craigslist from someone. We get it, and it's acting really odd. Forceclosing, freezing, shutting off, etc. Even after a factory restore, same issues persisted.
I said just bring it over and we'll LGNPST it back to stock. I plugged it in and LGNPST'd it to the newest official Jellybean and some of his stuff was there like a few apps, wallpaper, etc. VERY odd. Certain things were still force closing as well. I LGNPST'd it back to the ICS ROM, and still teh same thing. Some data was there.
So I tried getting into fastboot to wipe the phone and it for the life of it woudl NOT enter fastboot. Vol Up+Power, tried ADB commands such as adb reboot fastboot, and adb reboot bootloader. The phone would just reboot twice and boot into the OS. It was like the prev. owner screwed up the boot loader somehow, maybe trying to Freegee? But wouldn't LGNPST reflash that?
I finally got fed up and flashed the Nexus 4 .TOT file in LGNPST and flashed CM10.1. The phone functions perfectly now and enters fastboot and is stable.
SO my question is, what could have happened, and why would it only enter fastboot once I LGNPST'd the N4 ROM? I'd like to convert back but I'm afraid once I do I'll be back to square one. Any ideas of what the heck happened?
PS. I know the N4 convert is frowned upon but it seemed like the only thing left to do. My phone is currently N4 converted, though I'm converting back soon to LGOG.
I also tried flashing one of the Tinybin fixes.
We don't have fast boot when stock. We get fast boot after freegee
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Also, it seems for quite a few people they need the alt version of the teenybin, I did.
When I used the original one it just hung at the LG logo.
Wipe data after you lgnpst
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bleached45 said:
Also, it seems for quite a few people they need the alt version of the teenybin, I did.
When I used the original one it just hung at the LG logo.
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Same here with the Alt version. Though, I also had to disconnect the battery after using it. The phone wouldn't do anything outside of getting into fastboot, couldn't even load into recovery. Everything was peachy after the disconnect.
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Okay. So. After some trouble with houstonn's latest rom's lately (getting stuck on boot), I decided I'd give one more try for the 4/30 release. Clean wipe, flashed it, flashed minimal apps. Stuck on boot. WOOP WHO CARES?
This time was different - I couldn't access recovery. So I tried like 30 more times to access recovery. Couldn't do it. LGNPST back to the ICS stock bin (11c). Get my OTA update to 4.1.2, rooted with this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2006946. After that, I tried to access recovery mode again. Couldn't do it. So, I was like "what the hell, maybe FreeGee will help." So I continued on to unlock the bootloader with FreeGee and with CWM. Installed quickboot and chose to restart to recovery. SAME THING. Black Screen after LG logo. Can't get into recovery.
Now I'm LGNPSTing back to stock to repeat process. Any ideas on what's going on?
Edit: Running into quite a few problems with LGNPST. Gets stuck at 85% and won't boot even after power cycle.
Edit 2: TeenyBin AltBin let me format my partitions and then the LGNPST worked. Got the OTA. Rooted again, used FreeGee, except this time with TWRP 2.5.0.0. Wouldn't reboot afterwards, so moved on to TeenyBin AltBin again. The phone booted up and everything runs fine. One thing to note: I had some wifi problems when I just TeenyBinAltBin'd and used a restore point for stock 4.1.2 which is why I was so adamant to LGNPST like normal. Still can't flash any of the newer ROMs of houstonn's, but I can others. On the good side, I still have a phone. Hopefully if anyone else has the issue, they can follow this and resolve it.
I rooted my wife's phone last week using KingRoot and the Super-sume. Installed Titanium Backup and everything was working fine. She was given a notice to take an OTA update today which she did. Now the phone is stuck on the Samsung screen with the unlocked padlock. When I boot into recovery, it automatically tries to install the update, but gets an error. It then reboots and just hangs up on the Samsung Custom screen again.
How can I get this back to stock?
I can get into ODIN mode if that helps.
I found this thread and downloaded the pit file at the bottom for the Verizon version. Is this what I want to flash with ODIN? Will this fix the issue?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
So after more reading I don't think that will work as the phone was on OCT I think. It was on 5.0.1. I can't get it past the Samsung screen so I can't check.
Can someone please help....my wife is ready to kill me!!!!!!!
Nevermind. I figured it out. I found stock 5.0.1 firmware and was able to install it using ODIN. Working perfectly now.
Hi All,
Today I decided to "update" TWRP to 2.8. I backed up the old recovery using Flashify, and then performed the update using the same. After a reboot I was treated to Download Mode with a 'Could not do normal boot' error.
I am quickly remembering that I used safestrap back when I originally did this after I got a Secure Magiccode Check Fail via ODIN in an attempt to fix things.
Is there any way for me to atone for sins, and undo the error of my ways?
So, I turned off the phone completely for about 30 minutes to an hour. After that, I started to charge it, and the battery icon came up. I turned it back on, and it jumped right into safestrap and continued working normally as if I had not mangled it. No idea why this happened, but hopefully this can help someone else.
You say TWRP, then safestrap. Those are two completely different things. Safestrap is for LOCKED BOOTLOADER devices. TWRP is for MDK ONLY. Be lucky that you didn't brick it.
Long story not-so-short.
Due to upgrading to G5 I decideed to sell my G3.
I was running CM13 (one of the latest nightlies), 21C modem and TWRP 2.8.6, so it seemed like a good idea to go back to stock-ish firmware.
To do so, I installed stock ROM using this method with 21A modem.
Everything worked fine. I had a working LG ROM.
Then I had this great idea of mine to install even 'stocker' firmware with LG UP. (I couldn't do that while running CM13 - LG UP didn't recognize the phone)
And that was the moment when everything fell apart.
It took a few minutes for LGUP to 'install' the new firmware. Qhen phone finally rebooted, I got stuck in TWRP. There was no chance to boot a system.
I tried this fix and it didn't help.
I also tried to restore my nandroid backup (i made it on clean CM13) and it didn't work either.
Then, as an idiot I thought "How hard can it be?" and went crazy: wiping, formatting, trying to flash new modem (this tme 30B hybrid), boot, sytem and doing probably all the things I shouldn't do.
So the conclusion is: I have a nice gold brick with working TWRP, adb and LG's download mode, but nothing more than that.
No chance to boot to system and I guess with a pretty messed up system partition.
Also, I think there's some problem with flashing anything, as I don't see any lines while installing, just a few seconds and info about succeeded flashing.
Is there anyone who could help me?