Can't get to marshmallow - Verizon LG G3

My friend has a verizon LG G3. It is currently running 5.1.1 lollipop 35b. It was having a bunch of random reboots, we put in a new battery and the reboots stopped. The phone is working fine, except it keeps downloading the 46a 6.0 marshmallow update, but when it reboots to install, it gets to 2% and says error and reboots and I am back in 5.1.1 lollipop still. I checked software status, and it said "official" and I even used the Lg upgrade and repair assistant from verizon and chose to repair, which downloaded a 1.64 gb file (the 35b software kdz I'm pretty sure) and flashed it to the phone. I have also used lg flash tool 2014 to flash the 35b kdz. It always flashes the 35b kdz just fine, but still fails to take the marshmallow update.
I don't need root. All I'm trying to do is get from stock 35b lollipop to 46a marshmallow since it keeps failing. Since it didn't work even after successfully flashing the kdz, do I have to go all the way back to 10b and then just take a bunch of software updates ota until I get to 46a? I helped her get this phone on ebay, and it wasn't rooted when we got it, but for some reason it just won't take the update.
I understand there is no 46a kdz available right? I have been reading around about downgrading to 10b and whatnot here on xda, but I would prefer to not have to go through all that extra hassle if I don't have to. I don't need root, just need to update.
Any tips / ideas would be great! thanks.

steven_computer_guy said:
Since it didn't work even after successfully flashing the kdz, do I have to go all the way back to 10b and then just take a bunch of software updates ota until I get to 46a?
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I doubt if that would make any difference - OTAing to 35B gets you the same thing as flashing the 35B KDZ, but this is such a weird problem, I don't know... Try it and let us know.
You could try any extra factory reset even though flushing the KDZ with the official tool does that.
The only other thing I can think of is to try taking the OTA without the Micro SD card in.
I understand there is no 46a kdz available right?
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Correct, haven't seen it. The tool you used should've downloaded the 46A KDZ if it had been available.

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[Q] Trying to flash last update before lollipop help please?

So I'm new here and it's probably best if I start off with happened.
I was having trouble with okay Google working so I uninstalled app and reinstalled app and no change. Then I upgraded my phone. That was a big no-no. I use streaming media with blue tooth and it wasn't working. So I did a factory data reset and still no luck.
I found a Rom file and used LG flash tool and reset back to stock but I don't think my phone came with this software. I feel like there's a newer version but not lollipop. Does anybody have any idea where to get it? I think it's 12b or something like that. Oh and I used a root checker and apparently I'm not rooted?
Or can someone help me find a Rom like the 12b or just a very very stable Rom with good battery life, there are just way to many to check out. And I don't want to FC, I think that's what its called.
11c is the build I'm looking for..
To get 11c I think you will need to return to 10b via tot or kdz then root, install bumped twrp, then flash up from there. We have a 12b kdz and a pre-release 10b kdz, but not released 10b kdz or 11c kdz.
Thanks for your reply. When I went to update software it said update available but I thought it was lollipop. It says now user declined 10b to 11c. When I check for updates now it says no updates available. How could I fix it to I can update? Do I need to do factory reset?
Also, how does 12b kdz differ from 11c if you know off hand.
I got it! I was able to update to 11c after I did the factory rreset. Thank you so much for your help.

Help with stock upgrade from 23c to 46a

Hey XDA,
I had my LG G3 on the liquidsmooth ROM, for quite a long time, and am resetting it to factory and upgrading to 46a Marshmallow.
I have been using LG Flash Tool 2014 and got the 23c Normal Flash completed successfully, but have been unable to get the 24b KDZ to flash (LG Flash Tool 2014 keeps crashing). Tried on multiple Windows 7 computers and one windows 10 computer with compatibility for LG Flash Tool 2014 without any success.
I also tried getting the OTA updates with a verizon SIM installed and no luck there either.
I would love to find a .dlpkgfile of 24b, 35b and 46a to get my phone updated to current software.
If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. And of course I have searched high and low for answers with no success as well.
You could root and put TWRP on and flash the 46A ROM in the Development section. I've only seen 2-3 people mention actually getting an OTA to 46A so even if you OTA to 35B it's not certain when or if you'll see the OTA to Marshmallow.
FYI it's easiest to root and put TWRP on by flashing the 10B KDZ first. Use the Stump app to root and TWRP Manager to put TWRP on. Rooting and putting TWRP on gets more complicated after 10B.
Sometimes it can take a day or two for an OTA to show up.
Even if you got the .dlpkgfile files you needed, I wasn't able to use the same method that worked to manually apply the OTA from 12B to 23C, to do the same thing to go from 23C to 24B. And since only a few people have reported getting the 46A OTA, and I'm sure they weren't rooted (because otherwise the 46A OTA wouldn't have actually worked), and without root there's no way to capture the OTA file. Once everyone starts getting the OTA, assuming this is the final official Marshmallow, then someone with root and OTA enabled would be able to capture it if they thought about it.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
You could root and put TWRP on and flash the 46A ROM in the Development section. I've only seen 2-3 people mention actually getting an OTA to 46A so even if you OTA to 35B it's not certain when or if you'll see the OTA to Marshmallow.
FYI it's easiest to root and put TWRP on by flashing the 10B KDZ first. Use the Stump app to root and TWRP Manager to put TWRP on. Rooting and putting TWRP on gets more complicated after 10B.
Sometimes it can take a day or two for an OTA to show up.
Even if you got the .dlpkgfile files you needed, I wasn't able to use the same method that worked to manually apply the OTA from 12B to 23C, to do the same thing to go from 23C to 24B. And since only a few people have reported getting the 46A OTA, and I'm sure they weren't rooted (because otherwise the 46A OTA wouldn't have actually worked), and without root there's no way to capture the OTA file. Once everyone starts getting the OTA, assuming this is the final official Marshmallow, then someone with root and OTA enabled would be able to capture it if they thought about it.
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I have the intention of selling the phone and having on OFFICIAL status.
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I have the intention of selling the phone and having on OFFICIAL status.
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Ah. Afraid flashing the 35B KDZ and letting it OTA on its own whenever/if the OTA actually spreads to everyone would be your best bet. Assuming they'll put a Verizon SIM in it, that is. 35B works really great anyway.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Ah. Afraid flashing the 35B KDZ and letting it OTA on its own whenever/if the OTA actually spreads to everyone would be your best bet. Assuming they'll put a Verizon SIM in it, that is. 35B works really great anyway.
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I tried that, the LG Flash Tool 2014 continuously crashes when getting phone information, so I am essentially stuck at the moment
j1999t said:
I tried that, the LG Flash Tool 2014 continuously crashes when getting phone information, so I am essentially stuck at the moment
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Are you manually selecting the "Read Phone Information" button? You don't have to do that if you are, and has often crashed for me too. Just click "Start".
Otherwise, you could:
1. Root.
2. Put TWRP on.
3. Get the completely stock 35B aboot (bootloader), laf (Download mode), boot (kernel), system and recovery partition images from @bweN diorD 's stickied thread in the General section.
4. Take @xdabbeb 's 35B bootstack zip, replace the aboot and laf in there, which are 12B's, with the ones from 35B.
5. Modify the updater-script in the bootstack zip to also flash the boot, system, and recovery partitions.
6. Flash the zip in TWRP.
You should be 100% completely stock 35B with no root or custom recovery at this point.
I am not responsible if you mess up the commands in the updater-script, or any other issue and you end up bricking your phone, however.
Just sayin', you could.
FYI - I took the route of flashing the 46A rom in the developer section. I'm rooted, running xposed and my status shows "official"
If you're wanting to sell it, why not just slap 35B on there and call it a day? 46A is not current software for the masses

G3 stuck in boot loop

I had my G3 replaced by verizon after a hardware failure. The new one shipped with 47A, and I attempted to roll back to 10B using the TOT method, but it gave me the dreaded "there is no ks version" error. I checked and it's NOT one of the K revision phones. Anyway, I gave up on flashing it for now but decided to try rooting it with Kingroot. That failed as well. In the meantime I've received the notification to upgrade to 48A and since it kept bugging me about it, I went ahead and told it to upgrade. It failed with an error code and just sat there, unresponsive. So I pulled the battery and now it's stuck in a boot loop. It turns on, vibrates, and shows the LG splash screen. Then it reboots. So it's definitely bricked at the moment. I tried rolling back to 47A with the kdz method, which appeared to work but it's still doing the same thing. Tried the 48A kdz, same effect.
Does anyone have any suggestions or is this thing toast?
With the TOT method, were you using the newer .DLL that's extracted from the 35B KDZ? This is necessary from a completely stock 35B or higher VS985.
When you flashed the KDZ, did you choose the CSE option (you should)?
Try a wipe Cache or Factory Reset from the stock recovery, even though those shouldn't be necessary if you used the CSE option.
Like stock Factory Reset, the CSE option wipes everything including internal storage.
Lastly, although this doesn't help at the moment until you can successfully flash the TOT, flashing TOTs fixes more things than flashing KDZs. They contain more partitions than KDZs and I've witnessed the difference myself.
If you were still successfully on 47A and KingRoot worked for you, I'd direct you to my KS error thread and guide with a workaround in the General section. I wonder if in more recent versions of KingRoot if they broke their own method because the slightly older versions of KingRoot I have, have never failed to temporarily root the phone. Even then, it always required re-rooting after every reboot, and my workaround is a last resort that is merely to enable downgrading so you can still root etc the right way (SuperSU).
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
With the TOT method, were you using the newer .DLL that's extracted from the 35B KDZ? This is necessary from a completely stock 35B or higher VS985.
When you flashed the KDZ, did you choose the CSE option (you should)?
Try a wipe Cache or Factory Reset from the stock recovery, even though those shouldn't be necessary if you used the CSE option.
Like stock Factory Reset, the CSE option wipes everything including internal storage.
Lastly, although this doesn't help at the moment until you can successfully flash the TOT, flashing TOTs fixes more things than flashing KDZs. They contain more partitions than KDZs and I've witnessed the difference myself.
If you were still successfully on 47A and KingRoot worked for you, I'd direct you to my KS error thread and guide with a workaround in the General section. I wonder if in more recent versions of KingRoot if they broke their own method because the slightly older versions of KingRoot I have, have never failed to temporarily root the phone. Even then, it always required re-rooting after every reboot, and my workaround is a last resort that is merely to enable downgrading so you can still root etc the right way (SuperSU).
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The file you're talking about for .TOT is LGUP9784.dll, right? I did download that one before attempting to apply the TOT.
For the KDZ, I did use the CSE option, but just for good measure tried wiping the cache and factory reset. Still in the same loop.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Kingroot is broken though. I'm pretty sure that if I could successfully flash the TOT, everything would be fine. I have a replacement G3 on the way but I'm still going to try to tinker with this one for a few days before shipping it back. If the new one ships with 47A, I'll try Kingroot again and follow the directions on your thread.
pirho451 said:
The file you're talking about for .TOT is LGUP9784.dll, right? I did download that one before attempting to apply the TOT.
For the KDZ, I did use the CSE option, but just for good measure tried wiping the cache and factory reset. Still in the same loop.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Kingroot is broken though. I'm pretty sure that if I could successfully flash the TOT, everything would be fine. I have a replacement G3 on the way but I'm still going to try to tinker with this one for a few days before shipping it back. If the new one ships with 47A, I'll try Kingroot again and follow the directions on your thread.
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The filename of the .DLL is generic - all the .DLLs from each stock release KDZ is named the same or very similar. I have the .DLL from 35B at my Android File Host link at the bottom of the first post of @annoyingduck 's stickied return to stock thread in the General section - a link to his thread is also in my signature below.
Just to be clear, the my alternative KS Error thread is definitely a last resort. Some people have bricked their phones doing it, and those of us that it's worked everytime have no idea why it has bricked for others. From what I know, everyone who's bricked was able to either flash the 10B KDZ or 10B TOT after, or using the QHSUSB_BULK 9008 mode recovery instructions if the device shows up as QHSUSB_BULK 9008 in Device Manager, though (even though the phone's bricked, the process downgrades certain partitions which enable flashing any KDZ). TOTs are still preferred, of course. I'm just saying when you get the replacement, try the TOT method again before doing anything else.
If you do end up trying the KingRoot method and it fails to root, let me know in that thread and I'll upload the older versions of KingRoot that worked for me on 46A and 47A (but no version works on 48A last time I checked).
The 48A OTA likely failed due to KingRoot's attempt at rooting although normally if something's modified an OTA these days just refuses to install but doesn't leave a bricked device. I'd chalk it up to how invasive KingRoot is.
FYI, weirder things have happened than this - try keeping your MicroSD card ejected. For that matter, when attempting flashing the TOT, I'd eject both the MicroSD card and SIM card when you think of it. Once in 9-10 blue moons, a MicroSD card is keeping the phone from booting correctly. I doubt if this is the case but its worth a try.

LG G3 vs985 upgrading to Marshmallow

Hi,
My LG G3 VS985 has 5.0.1 v android software
If i try to upgrade it, it shows that "phone is updated"
But Marshmallow January update is now in market and my phone still using Lollyop version.
How can i upgrade it.
need help.
GSK_FS said:
Hi,
My LG G3 VS985 has 5.0.1 v android software
If i try to upgrade it, it shows that "phone is updated"
But Marshmallow January update is now in market and my phone still using Lollyop version.
How can i upgrade it.
need help.
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Are you on VZW with a valid SIM card and are you on stock, unrooted and it's not modified? If any of your answers to even one of those questions is a "no" that is why. Considering you're still on Lollipop and MM has been out for a long time, my feeling is you have a modified image of some sort. If you rooted and then just removed root without flashing back to stock, that won't do it. Once rooted, you have modified the system partition of you phone and it will no longer accept OTAs.
If you have reflashed to stock, what did you use? From what I remember, if you used an earlier KDZ image before Marshmallow, there is a particular KDZ image that was based on a pre-release version I believe and it will NOT allow OTAs to come through.
You can always flash the latest MM image via KDZ but it's like a factory reset so back up all data (photos, etc) on your internal memory before you do it.
This thread explains how to flash via KDZ if you don't know how:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/guide-flash-to-stock-10b-kdz-method-t2928140
You can get the latest KDZ images from here:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=35484

VS985 from Ebay

Hello and good day,
Just got my new almost mint condition LG G3 VS985, this is a replacement for my Old D851 but as far as I start using it I just realize how different this new baby is from my previous loved one starting with the locked Bootloader, then I realize Im not able to download any Ota, this baby came with 47A, so I downgrade to 10B, everything is running great with KitKat but so far Im not able to update for any way using OTA or even LG Update tool is not able to recognize the phone, so Im kind of jammed in 10B.
Then I root it and install TWRP, my question is if I install TOT file with 10B version, Will I ever be able to download OTA over my At&T Network In Mexico? If not, is there any specific version you suggest me to stay On, I like stock but I have bloatware, also is there any Debloated Stock ROM such some for the D851?
Othe weird situation is that Im not able to enter download mode, Is there any chance this phone was a clone G3?
As I said this came with 47A, LGUP was able to downgrade to 10B so Im not sure what can be wrong.

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