I have an at&t lg g5, it is not rooted or modded in any way. I was using it normally, fb and text, basic stuff, then it shut off. Started to cycle though the boot screens...lg start then att in a boot loading screen cycle about 4 times or so then i got the warning your phone MAY be CORRUPTED!? NOTIFICATION ....then BRICK. IT won't turn on and I had not backed all of my pix and info up to my sd, which is ok. I already have a replacement from ATT and haven't yet sent my now PAPERWEIGHT original in and i have a fresh new exact replacement with me. I've searched and googled and searched for anything that I can think of to just get the pix and video off the 1st G5 that I, stupidly, didn't back up. I have to send the broken one back and if anyone can help me get the stuff I need off it before I send it back I will be forever grateful. This is a death cry for help.
If I connect it to a pc nothing....no lights no vibrate when i hold the on button NOTHING it'ss dead. I just want the files off it then i have a new one in my Hand. I don't know what to do besides ask the smart ppl here for help.
thank you to anyone for input and if someone can help i will be forever grateful.
Boot into download and use send_command to send the ls command, I had this issue too!
Hey I had a phone for one day and it powered off and wouldn't boot back up. Any ideas?
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I have an at&t lg g5, it is not rooted or modded in any way. I was using it normally, fb and text, basic stuff, then it shut off. Started to cycle though the boot screens...lg start then att in a boot loading screen cycle about 4 times or so then i got the warning your phone MAY be CORRUPTED!? NOTIFICATION ....then BRICK. IT won't turn on and I had not backed all of my pix and info up to my sd, which is ok. I already have a replacement from ATT and haven't yet sent my now PAPERWEIGHT original in and i have a fresh new exact replacement with me. I've searched and googled and searched for anything that I can think of to just get the pix and video off the 1st G5 that I, stupidly, didn't back up. I have to send the broken one back and if anyone can help me get the stuff I need off it before I send it back I will be forever grateful. This is a death cry for help.
If I connect it to a pc nothing....no lights no vibrate when i hold the on button NOTHING it'ss dead. I just want the files off it then i have a new one in my Hand. I don't know what to do besides ask the smart ppl here for help.
thank you to anyone for input and if someone can help i will be forever grateful.
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I had a couple of phones like that at work. What we did to fix some of the phones was we took the board out of the phone and put the board into an IC Heater/Oven. After the board came out and we put everything back together we turned on the phone with almost no hope of it working and what do you know. It worked. We figured that over time the solder used to hold pieces of the board together became weaker and loosen the ICs on the board. Thus, turning the phone into a brick. What the IC Heater/Oven does to the board is it reheats the solder and reinforces them. Keep in mind though that this method is experimental and we were able to achieve a 60% success rate in repairing phones that were in that brick state. Sorry for the late reply. Thought I shared our methods on fixing this issue.
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Hi - I'm using a Galaxy S3 right now and it's not powering on at all. Battery is guaranteed not empty as it has been on charge all morning. It's rooted and running SuperNexus - I9300 - BUILD 4.
I can't even get into download mode - tried powering on with volume keys held up and/or down along with home key and power key but no luck
I've called Samsung and they will take it away for warranty repair but my worry is if they know it's rooted - will they refuse to fix it?
I'm clutching at straws but has anyone got any other suggestions I could try?
I imagine you already tried this, but when it happened to me last, I simply took the battery out for a few and put it back in, then it fired up. Has only happened to me once though.
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I imagine you already tried this, but when it happened to me last, I simply took the battery out for a few and put it back in, then it fired up. Has only happened to me once though.
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yeh it's been out for a few minutes. Maybe i should try it for a little while longer.
One thing I forgot to mention is that sometimes I would pick up the phone to look at something and the screen would be blank but the soft keys would be lit up. The only way to get the screen back was to keep the power button pressed down for 10 seconds or so so that it switched off and then back on.
This is what happened this time - but only this time it's refusing to come back on
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yeh it's been out for a few minutes. Maybe i should try it for a little while longer.
One thing I forgot to mention is that sometimes I would pick up the phone to look at something and the screen would be blank but the soft keys would be lit up. The only way to get the screen back was to keep the power button pressed down for 10 seconds or so so that it switched off and then back on.
This is what happened this time - but only this time it's refusing to come back on
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There's a known issue with some devices having problems with this in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
But if your device was starting to have problems before... maybe it wasn't related to motherboard but something else, maybe even software related... But still, if the device is not powering at ALL you should be good with samsung, as they will just replace the motherboard and thats all (at least some ppl had it repaired even rooted and with CM installed on the thread I linked above.
Good luck and share your adventure with the SAT (if you finally send it there) on the other post
If your in the eu then rooting your phone won't affect the warranty. It's been confirmed a few times in the thread posted above. It sounds to me like another mother board failure.
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There's a known issue with some devices having problems with this in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
But if your device was starting to have problems before... maybe it wasn't related to motherboard but something else, maybe even software related... But still, if the device is not powering at ALL you should be good with samsung, as they will just replace the motherboard and thats all (at least some ppl had it repaired even rooted and with CM installed on the thread I linked above.
Good luck and share your adventure with the SAT (if you finally send it there) on the other post
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thanks mate! Pardon my ignorance, but what's 'SAT' ?
I think i'll be sending it off to http://www.freesamsungrepairs.com/ because of their turn around time!
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If your in the eu then rooting your phone won't affect the warranty. It's been confirmed a few times in the thread posted above. It sounds to me like another mother board failure.
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thanks - just a pain in the arse, especially this time of year. Gutted that i'll have lost a few pictures as i didnt change the settings to store pictures on external storage And i've lost all my notes!
did a backup with titanium backup though!
Does anyone know how to restore it so that your folders and layout are preserved?
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thanks mate! Pardon my ignorance, but what's 'SAT' ?
I think i'll be sending it off to http://www.freesamsungrepairs.com/ because of their turn around time!
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I'm having a huge problem with my T-Mobile Galaxy S2, and not it won't even completely boot up. The issue had already been around, but never this bad. Usually, when I would use my phone, it would just randomly reboot on it's own. Now, I can't even get to the main home screen or menu. When the battery is inserted, the phone will automatically try to turn on. I'll get the Samsung screen, then the "Samsung Galaxy SII Android 4G T-Mobile screen", then the phone will glitch for a second, black screen, and it'll almost have a seizure from then on. When I say that, pretty much what happens is that the screen will go black, and it'll pulse with vibrations. It'll vibrate, stop for two seconds, vibrate some more, etc. That's all it'll do from there on. It won't try to turn on when I hold the power button, and the vibrations won't stop until I take the battery out. There is no water damage, and there's just normal wear on the phone. I've had the phone since the drop, and for the most part, it's been great until now.
The phone is not rooted, and I have not installed anything crazy. Come to think about it, I didn't really even have too many apps installed on it to begin with. The phone is under warranty, so I had T-Mobile send me a replacement. My main issue now is that I have content on there that wasn't on my SD card, but on the internal hard drive that I find extremely important, and want to keep. When I connect the phone to my computer, nothing comes up because I didn't "connect" it to the computer as you normally would have to do from the phone, before the extra drives pop up on the computer. Without getting into the main menu and manually connecting the phone to the computer so that the drive will pop up, what can I do?
I've tried taking the battery, sim card and memory card out, letting it sit for a few hours, and plug it back in, but it does the same thing. The battery isn't bad, because it plugs into the replacement phone that was sent to me, and works just fine. I've also plugged into my additional batteries, and it does the same thing. I can't do the "hard reset" where you hold volume up & down, then the power button because what happens is the phone will restart itself before I can get to that point. I tried it when I was on the phone with T-Mobile, and the associate at one of the retail locations tried when I went to get a loaner. I've tried hooking up the phone to the Kies software, but it won't recognize the old phone. It will recognize the new one with no problems though.
I am in no way am I well versed with the process of flashing it or installing different things on the phone. I just used it casually for phone calls, texts, web, and an occasional game or app. I'm just stating this so that if there are any specific tips that anyone could recommend, please if possible, explain in a bit more depth, because after I posted my title, I found the related threads, and most of the steps that were recommended to others that had problems sound a bit foreign to me. I just really want to recover the photos and documents that I had on the phone before I send it back to T-Mobile.
These are the threads that I've somewhat referenced so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1948094
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458x
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813866
I can't seem to find anything with the same symptoms as my phone though. If anyone could let me know, that would be great. I just really want to get the content off my old phone, it's just extremely important to me. I'll be waiting on any replies. If you need and more information about what the phone is doing, or what I should try, please mention it. I will try to update this as I get replies, since I am supposed to send the phone back pretty soon. Thank you in advance.
a usb jig to get see if you can get to download mode would be a start.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869203
T-mobile USA? If yes, FYI, you are in the wrong forum for your device.
T-mobile Galaxy SII forum.
Thanks. I'll try posting there.
same problem
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Thanks. I'll try posting there.
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You described my phone EXACTLY. I have tried everything you have, as well. I've read for hours on the internet trying to find a way to retrieve my pictures, etc. I have a replacement as well, but I haven't sent the old one back yet. I should have done so already, but I desperately need my stuff out of this phone. I'm going to be charged soon for the new one, and was trying once more before I sent it to the company. Exhausting all the info and tricks I've learned from the web, I ran across your post. Can you PLEASE tell me if you had any luck at all? Thank you....
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You described my phone EXACTLY. I have tried everything you have, as well. I've read for hours on the internet trying to find a way to retrieve my pictures, etc. I have a replacement as well, but I haven't sent the old one back yet. I should have done so already, but I desperately need my stuff out of this phone. I'm going to be charged soon for the new one, and was trying once more before I sent it to the company. Exhausting all the info and tricks I've learned from the web, I ran across your post. Can you PLEASE tell me if you had any luck at all? Thank you....
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don't tell me you got a T-mobile too............
vinhisbored said:
I'm having a huge problem with my T-Mobile Galaxy S2, and not it won't even completely boot up. The issue had already been around, but never this bad. Usually, when I would use my phone, it would just randomly reboot on it's own. Now, I can't even get to the main home screen or menu. When the battery is inserted, the phone will automatically try to turn on. I'll get the Samsung screen, then the "Samsung Galaxy SII Android 4G T-Mobile screen", then the phone will glitch for a second, black screen, and it'll almost have a seizure from then on. When I say that, pretty much what happens is that the screen will go black, and it'll pulse with vibrations. It'll vibrate, stop for two seconds, vibrate some more, etc. That's all it'll do from there on. It won't try to turn on when I hold the power button, and the vibrations won't stop until I take the battery out. There is no water damage, and there's just normal wear on the phone. I've had the phone since the drop, and for the most part, it's been great until now.
The phone is not rooted, and I have not installed anything crazy. Come to think about it, I didn't really even have too many apps installed on it to begin with. The phone is under warranty, so I had T-Mobile send me a replacement. My main issue now is that I have content on there that wasn't on my SD card, but on the internal hard drive that I find extremely important, and want to keep. When I connect the phone to my computer, nothing comes up because I didn't "connect" it to the computer as you normally would have to do from the phone, before the extra drives pop up on the computer. Without getting into the main menu and manually connecting the phone to the computer so that the drive will pop up, what can I do?
I've tried taking the battery, sim card and memory card out, letting it sit for a few hours, and plug it back in, but it does the same thing. The battery isn't bad, because it plugs into the replacement phone that was sent to me, and works just fine. I've also plugged into my additional batteries, and it does the same thing. I can't do the "hard reset" where you hold volume up & down, then the power button because what happens is the phone will restart itself before I can get to that point. I tried it when I was on the phone with T-Mobile, and the associate at one of the retail locations tried when I went to get a loaner. I've tried hooking up the phone to the Kies software, but it won't recognize the old phone. It will recognize the new one with no problems though.
I am in no way am I well versed with the process of flashing it or installing different things on the phone. I just used it casually for phone calls, texts, web, and an occasional game or app. I'm just stating this so that if there are any specific tips that anyone could recommend, please if possible, explain in a bit more depth, because after I posted my title, I found the related threads, and most of the steps that were recommended to others that had problems sound a bit foreign to me. I just really want to recover the photos and documents that I had on the phone before I send it back to T-Mobile.
These are the threads that I've somewhat referenced so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1948094
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458x
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813866
I can't seem to find anything with the same symptoms as my phone though. If anyone could let me know, that would be great. I just really want to get the content off my old phone, it's just extremely important to me. I'll be waiting on any replies. If you need and more information about what the phone is doing, or what I should try, please mention it. I will try to update this as I get replies, since I am supposed to send the phone back pretty soon. Thank you in advance.
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Tonight out the blue my S2 galaxy skyrocket got the same exactly problem that you described. except for some dumb apps my phone has not been ever modified. I don't know anything about phones. for a couple hours y tried every combination possible of volume down, power button plug cable to computer in every sequence possible several times. at the enI stared trying with the Volume up I was fearing it will star a OS download or something at some point the Samsung logo stays a little longer and started the normal booting sequence. PHEW I got my Notes back. Hope this works for you. good luck
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lbk83 said:
You described my phone EXACTLY. I have tried everything you have, as well. I've read for hours on the internet trying to find a way to retrieve my pictures, etc. I have a replacement as well, but I haven't sent the old one back yet. I should have done so already, but I desperately need my stuff out of this phone. I'm going to be charged soon for the new one, and was trying once more before I sent it to the company. Exhausting all the info and tricks I've learned from the web, I ran across your post. Can you PLEASE tell me if you had any luck at all? Thank you....
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I have good news for you:
Tonight out the blue my S2 galaxy skyrocket got the same exactly problem that you described. except for some dumb apps my phone has not been ever modified. I don't know anything about phones. for a couple hours y tried every combination possible of volume down, power button plug cable to computer in every sequence possible several times. at the enI stared trying with the Volume up I was fearing it will star a OS download or something at some point the Samsung logo stays a little longer and started the normal booting sequence. PHEW I got my Notes back. Hope this works for you. good luck
That's nice, but this is still in the wrong forum. The people who could benefit from it won't see your 'help'.
Hi everyone. Thank you for reading.
I am posting for help with a friend's phone. I, personally, have an S3 on Sprint and haven't had much experience with T-Mobile phones. He has rooted his S5 (T-Mobile, obviously) using galaxys5root.com (I'm now not fond of that site due to his bad experiences that consistently happen) and has not put a new ROM on yet. It has been successfully rooted for several weeks, but today he went to text someone a response and the screen went black, and the blue notification light breathes. It also does a light vibrate, like when you are turning it on. He's getting a replacement anyway, but we want to unroot it before sending in the defective device. I'm wondering (and to my knowledge it seems like) if it's a boot loop. Nothing shows up on the screen at all, not even the back light is coming on. I have yet to connect it to Odin to see if anything comes up. I'm just seeing if this has happened to anyone else and if they have figured out a way to resolve it. My suspicion is that there's a problem with either the boot sector or the recovery sector, as it does not go into recovery.
Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks again!
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today he went to text someone a response and the screen went black, and the blue notification light breathes. It also does a light vibrate, like when you are turning it on.
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It sounds like the LCD display has gone bad if the vibration and blue light function normally but you cannot see anything ever.
When they get the new device you might want to suggest that they follow the rooting instruction in this forum on XDA instead of going to a website to do it. Just my opinion.
We are thinking the LCD is bad as well, it just feels like a boot loop because the light vibration keeps happening (I forgot to mention that). Sometimes the blue light will go out and the phone will vibrate lightly and then the blue other starts breathing. It's just repeating that non-stop. I had to pull the battery.
As for him rooting through here, I told him to with his S4 and S5 but he didn't listen. The S4 took a crap, and now the S5 took a crap. I told him I think it's that site. The method is correct but who knows where those flash files come from... I've never had any issues rooting through here, just an occasional reset here and there, nothing as major as this.
caderyn19 said:
We are thinking the LCD is bad as well, it just feels like a boot loop because the light vibration keeps happening (I forgot to mention that). Sometimes the blue light will go out and the phone will vibrate lightly and then the blue other starts breathing. It's just repeating that non-stop. I had to pull the battery.
As for him rooting through here, I told him to with his S4 and S5 but he didn't listen. The S4 took a crap, and now the S5 took a crap. I told him I think it's that site. The method is correct but who knows where those flash files come from... I've never had any issues rooting through here, just an occasional reset here and there, nothing as major as this.
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Normally, even in a boot loop you see the initial Galaxy splash screen when it first starts booting. Then you see it over and over again. If you see nothing, it normally means the LCD is bad and unfortunately it's the most expensive part of the phone.
Good Luck with it.
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That's what I figured... Thanks for your help! (I hit the button )
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That's what I figured... Thanks for your help! (I hit the button )
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Wouldn't surprise me if the device is rebooting itself trying to fix a hardware fault. Might be detecting the LCD has stopped forcing itself to reboot.
But yeah, stick to XDA from now on We are good people here Welcome to the family!
Lol I've been part of the family for years now... I've always come here first for any android help, and have always found just what I'm looking for!
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Lol I've been part of the family for years now... I've always come here first for any android help, and have always found just what I'm looking for!
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Well get your friend over here too!
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Hello everyone,
I have a stock Verizon Galaxy S4 that is having some issues and wont stay on and sometimes gets caught in a bootloop. I have been able to get into recovery and wipe cache / do a factory reset, but the phone keeps doing the same thing; reboot, sometimes start but then reboots again. I have had it for almost 2 years and thought it was the battery, so I bought another one and the phone still does the same thing. If I boot into safe mode, it lasts a little longer that way, but will eventually turn off and get caught into the bootloop again.
Any ideas on what the cause is and possibly how to fix it? The is completely stock and has never been rooted, unlocked, or anything like that. I looked in the forums, but it looks like they all have to do with flashed roms and non-stock options, which is why I am posting a new thread.
All help is appreciated. Thank you.
It sounds like your power button may be on its way out. I had the same issue with my phone. Couldn't get it to boot past the splash screen. If your is intermittent it may or may not be this issue. However if the problem gets worse, its more then likely the cause. After a lot of use the insulation inside the power button can wear away causing a short. If you google it there are several articles describing symptoms to help figure out if that is indeed the problem. If you run in to a boot loop, pull the battery and reinsert it. If the phone powers on without pressing the power button, that is your problem.
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I know it has been a few weeks but I wanted to provide an update. I have a friend who runs a cell phone repair shop. I took it to him and they did all sorts of tests and such, so we replaced the power button. After replacing the button, the phone still did the same thing.
I would pull the battery, but the phone would not turn on by itself. I would power on the phone like normal and would make it to the splash screen in which the phone would then power off. At that point, it would not try to restart, but rather would act like it was on and the phone / battery would get really hot. I would pull the battery and start again, with the same result.
Any other ideas? My friend, the co-owner of the business, and myself are all out of ideas.
Thanks!
Edit: Also I called Verizon and Samsung to see if I could work out a warranty through either of them. Since the phone is almost 2 years old, we all know the answer to that. Sammy wanted $70 just to look at it, let alone additional charges to fix it if the problem wasnt what they thought it was.
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I know it has been a few weeks but I wanted to provide an update. I have a friend who runs a cell phone repair shop. I took it to him and they did all sorts of tests and such, so we replaced the power button. After replacing the button, the phone still did the same thing.
I would pull the battery, but the phone would not turn on by itself. I would power on the phone like normal and would make it to the splash screen in which the phone would then power off. At that point, it would not try to restart, but rather would act like it was on and the phone / battery would get really hot. I would pull the battery and start again, with the same result.
Any other ideas? My friend, the co-owner of the business, and myself are all out of ideas.
Thanks!
Edit: Also I called Verizon and Samsung to see if I could work out a warranty through either of them. Since the phone is almost 2 years old, we all know the answer to that. Sammy wanted $70 just to look at it, let alone additional charges to fix it if the problem wasnt what they thought it was.
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I have to say I'm shocked its not the power button. My only other suggestion would be to flash the stock firmware to the device using Odin. It could be a software problem. Your guess is as good as mine. However flashing the stock image is definitely cheaper then hassling with Sammy or big red. Not that voiding your warranty would matter at this point but make sure you flash whatever firmware your on right now. If you go backwards you may run into a problem since your phone has the Knox boot loader. Check out the i545 android development section here at XDA for tutorials on how to do so. There are a few of them out there. I'm not completely familiar with that process since I'm still on MDK firmware. But there are plenty of knowledgeable guys that can help you on those threads if need be. Good luck!
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Well, I ended up selling it for $130 to some one for parts. I made full disclosure of what the phone was doing and even showed the buyer exactly what it was.
My father had an older Droid X2 that we are using for the time being. Our contract ends in less than 30 days in which we will be moving to T-mobile anyways. I get literally zero signal where I work and my wife gets very limited service where she works. However, the T-mobile service is excellent in both our respective buildings and in the Phoenix metro area where we live.
I appreciate your thoughts on trying to resolve this. One of the many reasons why I love XDA and the community.
Last night I was charging my phone while using the mobile hotspot app and it randomly just cut off and wont boot past the unable to check your software for corruption lock your bootloader screen or it wont show anything and just vibrate the whole time. any suggestions on what the problem might be and any solutions. Desperatly need to keep this phone goin
Welcome to the club. Sorry to tell you this, but it's dead. It has the bootloop of death. Mine had the same thing happen. Sometimes it will boot to that screen and turn off and other times it won't turn on at all. I just got mine back today from LG today. They replaced the motherboard for free. It's something to do with the solder joints.
Mine died today as well.how did you get in touch with lg? Thanks
help - i seem to have the exact same issue
my phone is doing the exact same thing. it suddenly just gets to the "device software cant' be verified..." screen then sometimes it goes to the LG screen and sometimes it just dies from there?
Should i be contacting LG for this ?
Will I loose root if I send it
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Will I loose root if I send it
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I realize you asked this over a week ago, and I assume you found your own answer, but in case anyone else finds this by search, yes, you will absolutely lose root. If you can get LG to fix it, they will replace the main board. But, your phone is completely dead unless you can get LG to fix it, so it's dead phone or stock phone, my friend. If you're not familiar with this issue, ask google about LG V10 bootloop. For fun, add the word "freezer" to your search. It's crazy, but it's a known thing with this and similar LG devices... g'luck.
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I realize you asked this over a week ago, and I assume you found your own answer, but in case anyone else finds this by search, yes, you will absolutely lose root. If you can get LG to fix it, they will replace the main board. But, your phone is completely dead unless you can get LG to fix it, so it's dead phone or stock phone, my friend. If you're not familiar with this issue, ask google about LG V10 bootloop. For fun, add the word "freezer" to your search. It's crazy, but it's a known thing with this and similar LG devices... g'luck.
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Thank you. I need to get in touch with lg and get it fix. Im using a sony xperia z5c now and miss my phablet