Hi I'm pretty new to rooting and flashing and all that modifying my phone stuff. Firstly I'd like to thank @roirraW "edor" ehT and @LASERWOLF452 for the guides on rooting my phone which I've been trying to do for over a year, but just now finally succeeded.
Now I've run into a problem leaving my phone useless. Not sure if software or hardware problem. After I turn my phone on, which sometimes that doesn't work, it gets to LG logo then screen goes black, all buttons unresponsive including power button. I think I softbricked my phone because sometimes it gets stuck in the bootloop. (Edit: It doesn't go into the bootloop that often, mostly just blackscreens after LG logo or when I turn it on, it vibrates and that's all, logo doesn't even pop up.) Sometimes when I pull the battery out, wait a few minutes, then put it back in I can get it to turn on and get to the PB Screen after the LG logo (because I have the PitchBlack theme installed). Sometimes I can even get to my home screen even open an app, but then everything freezes and screen goes off. Usually after any of these attempts, doing anything with the power button results in nothing, not even a single vibration. It makes me think that the phone is on just the screen is unresponsive. So I have to pull the battery out and try again. I held volume down and power button til LG logo came on, then let go of power button and immediately held it again until I got into recovery. Scrolled down to factory reset, clicked yes, then most of the time the phone shuts off and the LG logo comes on and goes black again. One time it got TWRP to open up. But it froze and screen went black. I finally got it to go into TWRP again randomly, but trying to click on the "Advanced" key in the process of wiping the dalvik cache my phone half froze. By half froze I mean just that. The status bar showed my phone's changing temperature, the minutes were changing and the battery percent showed. When I went to slide the arrow to wipe the cache it wouldn't move. It was like the bottom part of my touchscreen wasn't working. Then I pressed the power button and it locked the screen and said slide to unlock but I couldn't slide the slider. So it's like half of my phone functioned and half didn't.
I wasn't having major issues like this except occasionally getting my phone to receive a charge or turn on. This booting issue started yesterday when I was at work. I was just playing pokemon GO and decided to charge my phone. I unplugged a charger for a Bose speaker (one of those color sound ones) and plugged it into my phone and it immediately shut off and wouldn't get past the LG logo. After a long night of failed attempts to get it working, this is where I am now.
I rooted my phone last week. After the first night I freaked out because I couldn't get my phone to turn on the next morning, I forgot to charge it and the battery was drained. It wouldn't even receive a charge. Then I googled some stuff and found out that taking the battery out and putting it back in can sometimes get it to receive a charge. Then I have to unplug it before turning it on or else it'll just reboot with the battery logo. I've had to do this every time when the battery is completely drained.
I rooted my phone by downgrading to 35B and doing all that LG FlashTool stuff then used Stump. Then installed TWRP and CM13. The most recent thing I have been messing with is Xposed Installer and downloaded and activated a few modules yesterday. Could those have done something? A few were out of date that I decided to give a try. After I turn my phone on and feel it vibrate and all that, I think it actually is turning on. Whether it makes it to the LG logo or not, it seems like it is turning on and maybe the screen just isn't functioning the way it's supposed to. I can't turn it on again, holding the power button does nothing.
Sorry that this was really long, tried to give a detailed description of my issue. Phone has been useless for 24 hours now. It really sucks because I need it, will be traveling through a few airports later today and need to call people to make sure I have rides. Only thing I can think to try is get a new battery. I would really appreciate any help that anyone can provide! I'm desperate.
Update: Recently I have been able to get the phone to start up like normal and get to the home screen, check my texts, that kind of stuff, but within 30 seconds it freezes and shuts off.
I'll confess, I didn't read everything, but a few questions and suggestions. FYI if it were me I'd skip right to suggestion #3.
Can you still access TWRP?
If so,
1. Try wiping Cache and Dalvik /ART or if that doesn't work wipe Cache, Dalvik /ART and Data.
2. If both don't help, wipe them again, then do a fresh flash of whatever preferably stock based ROM you want and the appropriate Bootstack.
3. I would flash the 10B TOT and start fresh. It's often enough the experience of users who flash non-stock or international stock-based ROMs to have various troubles.
No matter what caused the problem, TOTs contain more partitions that KDZs and flashing TOTs can fix problems that KDZs can't.
Good luck, keep us posted.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I'll confess, I didn't read everything, but a few questions and suggestions. FYI if it were me I'd skip right to suggestion #3.
Can you still access TWRP?
If so,
1. Try wiping Cache and Dalvik /ART or if that doesn't work wipe Cache, Dalvik /ART and Data.
2. If both don't help, wipe them again, then do a fresh flash of whatever preferably stock based ROM you want and the appropriate Bootstack.
3. I would flash the 10B TOT and start fresh. It's often enough the experience of users who flash non-stock or international stock-based ROMs to have various troubles.
No matter what caused the problem, TOTs contain more partitions that KDZs and flashing TOTs can fix problems that KDZs can't.
Good luck, keep us posted.
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Sorry I know it was super lengthy. Sometimes I can access TWRP and sometimes I can't. I'm getting so aggravated with my phone! I think I successfully wiped Dalvik which did not help so I'll try to do the others if my phone wants to cooperate with me. Most of the time it doesn't even want to boot into recovery. Most of the time after clicking Yes under factory data reset the LG logo pops up then my phone just goes black.
Update: Wiped Davlik/Art, Cache, and Data. Rebooted and saw the CM13 logo instead of PB but then immediately shut down.
Yeah, I'd definitely go the 10B TOT route.
I've rooted a few phones, but I'm not a ninja like these other xda'ers are. I'm running Jasminerom 8.0 (which is excellent on the g3), a couple of weeks ago, I tried Dirty Unicorns, but it didn't seem to play well with my phone, so I went back to JR 8.0 (by restoring my nandroid backup) then tried to upgrade to JR 9.0 then 9.1. I didn't even get the LG start screen, the screen was black, but I could tell the phone was on by a couple of noises. I did hyelton's "[Guide] LG G3 Stock Firmware (Go Back to Stock) KDZ & TOT Method With LGUP" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089 It puts the phone back to dead stock, you have to root again and reinstall twrp, then you can go to the rom you want. It scared me pretty good, but within a day or 2, I had my phone back to where it was. Don't forget to thank the devs who post these guides, they can get you out of almost any jam you get into.:good:
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I've rooted a few phones, but I'm not a ninja like these other xda'ers are. I'm running Jasminerom 8.0 (which is excellent on the g3), a couple of weeks ago, I tried Dirty Unicorns, but it didn't seem to play well with my phone, so I went back to JR 8.0 (by restoring my nandroid backup) then tried to upgrade to JR 9.0 then 9.1. I didn't even get the LG start screen, the screen was black, but I could tell the phone was on by a couple of noises. I did hyelton's "[Guide] LG G3 Stock Firmware (Go Back to Stock) KDZ & TOT Method With LGUP" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089 It puts the phone back to dead stock, you have to root again and reinstall twrp, then you can go to the rom you want. It scared me pretty good, but within a day or 2, I had my phone back to where it was. Don't forget to thank the devs who post these guides, they can get you out of almost any jam you get into.:good:
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I was literally in the middle of following the instuctions in the guide you linked, then when I have FlashTool all ready, I noticed my phone turned off. I read that I might have to put it back in download mode after messing with device manager. Now the problem is I can't get it to download mode. I can get the download mode and blue dots image, but doesn't go to the next screen with the "firmware update don't unplug phone" it just goes to blackscreen help I was literally just in download mode now my computer says it doesn't recognize the last usb device that I plugged in
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I was literally in the middle of following the instuctions in the guide you linked, then when I have FlashTool all ready, I noticed my phone turned off. I read that I might have to put it back in download mode after messing with device manager. Now the problem is I can't get it to download mode. I can get the download mode and blue dots image, but doesn't go to the next screen with the "firmware update don't unplug phone" it just goes to blackscreen help I was literally just in download mode now my computer says it doesn't recognize the last usb device that I plugged in
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Do a battery pull to make sure it is shut off, then do the Vol up while plugging in the usb cable. Even if the screen stays black, it should still go into download mode (that's exactly what had happened to me). When you go into Device Manager, you should see LGE Modem listed under Ports, and keep following hyelton's instructions. I was sure mine was dead, but it worked fine.
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Do a battery pull to make sure it is shut off, then do the Vol up while plugging in the usb cable. Even if the screen stays black, it should still go into download mode (that's exactly what had happened to me). When you go into Device Manager, you should see LGE Modem listed under Ports, and keep following hyelton's instructions. I was sure mine was dead, but it worked fine.
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I managed to get into download mode, two additional times. The first time, after started FlashTool, it said download failed at 10%.After an hour I finally got it to go into download mode again. Got to 57% then said download failed. My phone won't stay on or something. Everything was going smoothly, then boom black screen download failed. This has been the problem the entire time with my phone. Sometimes I can get to the homescreen, open my texts, browser an app or 2 then freeze and black screen. It won't stay on long enough for FlashTool so what the hell do I do now?!
Now my phone won't even vibrate when I plug it in while holding Vol Up. It comes up as something slightly different in device manager though. I kept FlashTool open even with the failed download, but it says "Can't change to download mode" in the port 1 box.
Also sometimes after plugging in, when it does vibrate, the LG logo comes on instead of DL mode. When that happens my phone appears as something QualCom in device manager then disappears.
Also, does it matter if my COM41 says 'in use'?
ArcticPat said:
I managed to get into download mode, two additional times. The first time, after started FlashTool, it said download failed at 10%.After an hour I finally got it to go into download mode again. Got to 57% then said download failed. My phone won't stay on or something. Everything was going smoothly, then boom black screen download failed. This has been the problem the entire time with my phone. Sometimes I can get to the homescreen, open my texts, browser an app or 2 then freeze and black screen. It won't stay on long enough for FlashTool so what the hell do I do now?!
Now my phone won't even vibrate when I plug it in while holding Vol Up. It comes up as something slightly different in device manager though. I kept FlashTool open even with the failed download, but it says "Can't change to download mode" in the port 1 box.
Also, does it matter if my COM41 says 'in use'?
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Now you're getting into territory that I have no experience with. I'm sorry I can't help any farther, I hope some of the more experienced xda'ers can help you out.
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Now you're getting into territory that I have no experience with. I'm sorry I can't help any farther, I hope some of the more experienced xda'ers can help you out.
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lol thanks for your help! The only issue I've run into the past hour is that I haven't been able to get into Download Mode. When I hold Vol Up and connect USB it either loads the LG logo or just goes blank. Doesn't give me the 'download mode' with the blue dots.
So I'm guessing it's a bad thing if my phone shows up as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM9)?
Phone just shuts off too fast to do anything. If I successfully make it to download mode, only shows for two minutes in device manager. Qualcomm only shows up for about 2 minutes too. What do I do? I can't even flash the 10B TOT because of this.j
It used to be hard to get the battery to charge, but now I can't get it to charge at all!
Update: I realized, the longer I leave my phone alone, the longer it stays on. I waited an hour then tried Download Mode again. Phone stayed in Download Mode long enough for me to get to the blue screen and the red 3. I forgot what to do when I got to this point so I just let it go and it turned off by itself. I took out the battery, then tried to reboot and it hit the LG logo and the little Android when you first set up your phone then black screen.
Update 2: After waiting another hour, I got the phone to sort of start up. Got to the LG logo, then the green android with a blue loading bar underneath then wham! Green screen saying Tz crash! DemiGod Crash Handler. And some other stuff. What the heck is this? Never even heard of it before.
Update 3: tried to flash again, reached the blue screen with the red 3, pulled out USB and battery then tried to boot up and doesn't even boot up.
Sorry for double post, but this is a huge update. I realized the longer I leave my phone alone, the longer it will stay on. So I left the battery out for an hour. Finally I was able to flash 10B TOT and got to the blue screen with the big 3 on it. I wasn't sure what to do so I just left it there and it eventually shut itself down. Tried to boot up and same thing, black screen after LG logo. Does this mean I'm out of luck @roirraW "edor" ehT ?
Don't tell me this has been a hardware issue the whole time... I even tried new batteries today when I went to a cell phone outlet. Tested 4 LG G3 replacement batteries all with the same blackscreen after LG logo
It does sound like hardware, but its very possible the battery itself is the only issue. Unfortunately, without a spare to try, I don't know any way of finding out for sure if that's the issue without buying a new battery. LG's had them on sale for $15 from time to time, but I don't know if they are now or if they're in stock. On the one hand, I'd hate to see you buy a new one locally only to find out that doesn't fix anything but if the battery is the only issue it's a shame to write the phone off. If you lived around Columbus, Ohio I'd offer for you to try my battery just to see what happens.
There definitely has been enough of a precedent of user's batteries being the culprit with this phone.
That's what I get for reading only 5 out of 6 of the new posts. Sorry, yeah, it doesn't sound like there's much hope. Glad you at least had a place to try a different battery without buying one. I don't know what else to suggest - you could try sending it to LG for service. I can vouch for their warranty service - I can't personally report on their out of warranty. In warranty they returned my tablet fixed four days after they paid to have it packaged and shipped to them.
EDIT: Nevermind, only read part of the post and provided bad advice, lol.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
It does sound like hardware, but its very possible the battery itself is the only issue. Unfortunately, without a spare to try, I don't know any way of finding out for sure if that's the issue without buying a new battery. LG's had them on sale for $15 from time to time, but I don't know if they are now or if they're in stock. On the one hand, I'd hate to see you buy a new one locally only to find out that doesn't fix anything but if the battery is the only issue it's a shame to write the phone off. If you lived around Columbus, Ohio I'd offer for you to try my battery just to see what happens.
There definitely has been enough of a precedent of user's batteries being the culprit with this phone.
That's what I get for reading only 5 out of 6 of the new posts. Sorry, yeah, it doesn't sound like there's much hope. Glad you at least had a place to try a different battery without buying one. I don't know what else to suggest - you could try sending it to LG for service. I can vouch for their warranty service - I can't personally report on their out of warranty. In warranty they returned my tablet fixed four days after they paid to have it packaged and shipped to them.
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The guy almost didn't let me try the battery. It was a dinky little stand in a farmers market and I was like let me see if they have any batteries. Luckily they did and I was like can I try it? He had the audacity to say sure but that's 20$ extra. Then I said how much is the battery? He said $40. THIS GUY!!! I almost had to beg just to see if it worked, and he finally agreed. He wouldn't even let me do it myself so I gave him my phone and he tried 3 different batteries and still the same problem.
I really appreciate that you would offer a stranger to test out your battery. It's funny that you live in Columbus because I actually go to school near there! I don't go to OSU but I go to OWU in Delaware, Ohio. But you are right, I'm not currently there but will be there soon.
Anyway, I decided that I had given it my all after trying different batteries, flashing the 10B TOT, etc. and made myself go to the Verizon store. Told the guy that greeted me that my phone wouldn't boot. Mind you I'm a little nervous because I don't want them to find out it's rooted if the 10B TOT didn't flash correctly, but I figured I'd had this phone for over two years, it's out of warranty so whatever. He tried to boot it and got nothing, not even the LG logo. So he said since the screen isn't cracked and no water damage I can get a new phone for free. You should have seen my face, my jaw dropped. I said "What?" He told me I have some warranty extension insurance. I said I know I had some insurance where I paid like 8$ a month, but I canceled that last year. He told me no, you have insurance and you pay 9$ a month. I was astonished and was like wow I thought I cancelled it, oh well, if it fixes my phone for "free" then let's do it. So now I'm eagerly waiting for the phone to arrive in the mail. I've had a brick for 4 days now so I'm feeling all kinds of disconnect. My only regret is that I didn't go into Verizon earlier.
So I'm hoping their warranty service is as great as you say. My only fear is that when I put my current battery, sim, and back cover on the new phone that it won't boot. I suppose at least I'll know for a fact that it's the battery at that point. Weird though that I've had this battery for two years and not a single issue...
Would it be wise to go through the root process again? I did all this in the first place just so I could cheat in pokemon, but then found so many cool modules from Xposed that made my life feel that much better.
ArcticPat said:
Would it be wise to go through the root process again? I did all this in the first place just so I could cheat in pokemon, but then found so many cool modules from Xposed that made my life feel that much better.
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Only you can determine that, sorry mate.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Yeah, I'd definitely go the 10B TOT route.
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I am on fulmics ROM 5.3 with 35B bootstack. Want to go back to kk10B what should i do.. Like do i need special .dll file as i use 35B bootstack?
Never used kdz or tot except for 10B on my phone. Means Never used kdz or tot to flash official lp or MM
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minhas729 said:
I am on fulmics ROM 5.3 with 35B bootstack. Want to go back to kk10B what should i do.. Like do i need special .dll file as i use 35B bootstack?
Never used kdz or tot except for 10B on my phone. Means Never used kdz or tot to flash official lp or MM
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The 35B Bootstack should allow you to use the original .DLL, because it's the correct combination of partitions from both 12B and 35B - which are necessary in order to be able to get into TWRP and as far as I'm aware allow using the old .DLL but also as far as I know and have experienced, you can use the newer .DLL any time. It's only when you're 100% stock 35B or higher that you can't flash the TOT without the newer .DLL, and can't flash KDZs older than 35B.
See post #5 of this thread for a link to a post. The post has another link to directions for Verizon. You can get the 10B TOT and the newer .DLL from my Android File Host link the bottom of the first post of @annoyingduck 's stickied return to stock thread in the General section, also in my signature below.
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So yesterday I was in a call with low battery when it shut off. Normally not a problem, just plug it into the wall for a while. Well when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't even boot up. It was stuck at the red M logo. The LED showed amber colored as well. I left it plugged in and the light remained amber until 90% battery, where it turned green.
I tried to turn it on and its been stuck on the red M logo. Its been stuck for more than 12 hours now.
I CAN access fastboot, android recovery, etc. I already tried wiping the cache and even did a factory reset. Still wont work.
What can I possibly do? I luckily have a backup phone, but I've had my photon for less than a month, no warranty, and I'm a novice Android user. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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So yesterday I was in a call with low battery when it shut off. Normally not a problem, just plug it into the wall for a while. Well when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't even boot up. It was stuck at the red M logo. The LED showed amber colored as well. I left it plugged in and the light remained amber until 90% battery, where it turned green.
I tried to turn it on and its been stuck on the red M logo. Its been stuck for more than 12 hours now.
I CAN access fastboot, android recovery, etc. I already tried wiping the cache and even did a factory reset. Still wont work.
What can I possibly do? I luckily have a backup phone, but I've had my photon for less than a month, no warranty, and I'm a novice Android user. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393519
Click on the software and tools link and use rsd lite to reflash the stock os onto the phone. If that doesn't work I would take it to the sprint store.
I assume you tried pulling the battery?
I'm downloading SBF now. Hopefully it works, because I live in Canada and we don't have Sprint stores.
And YES, I tried pulling the battery. Multiple times. With every combination (eg, plug in, turn on, then insert battery; put in battery, turn on, then plug in, etc)
the sbf should work but may i ask how you managed to brick your photon? when i just got mine i did everything wrong and i never got even a soft brick so i'm interested what i didn't mess up haha
Quick question: I should be downloading the most recent? Will it make a difference?
And damn, did I actually brick it?? I'm pretty new to this thing, this is my first Android and I've had it for less than a month...
And nothing should have triggered it. I added another line in build (ro.media.setting.1080p or something) and I added another setting in /system/etc/mediaprofiles.xml. I was trying to add 1080p to the camera (unsuccessfully). I didn't remove anything, and even after a reboot it was fine.
It wasn't until the battery died, where it stopped booting up. Just my luck :/
You should probably choose one of the newer ones, just becasue of bug fixes, etc. If you happen to know what version you were running before then I'd choose that. I cant stress enough, make sure the one you download is for the Photon and NOT Electrify! And technically yeah that is a brick lol but its extremely hard to legit brick beyond repair a photon due to the fact that we have RSD Lite and SBF files to bring it back.
Strangely, I found a thread depicting the same problem that I had, although with the electrify. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=14813
Anyways, the problem is fixed, by reflashing the SBF using RSD Lite, everything is back to normal! Well, almost, just have to restore my backup
Thanks so much for your help guys, I wouldn't have been able to fix it without you all!
can you fix a bricked phone??
My Photon has done the same thing! I rooted her and did the Bootstrap Recovery thing. Everything was kosher until I tried to load that stupid Beats Audio. Something happened between me flashing it and the reboot where it locks the phone. I tried to do the Android recovery screen, I wiped, I did about everything I could find. No bueno.
I followed this forum and clicked the software and tools link as instructed. I tried with RSD 5.6, and tried several iterations of SBF's located here and here. I was using SBF - 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_MR-3-CM.
It lets me go into boot mode, and when I try to flash the SBF it appears to go through, but it always fails at the end. Which, the posts state it will do, but my phone will not reboot afterwords. After trying everything I could for a couple days, I decided to just take it to a Sprint store. Mind you I've had this under 30 days, but longer than 14 so they stated it would have to be replaced. They tried to flash, but said they were getting stuck too.
I know that a replacement is pretty much the answer, but just wanted to check one more time to see if anyone had any other ideas, or could point me to other forums maybe? Appears I've done what few have been able to accomplish...brick this joker.
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I gave up trying to calibrate my compass. I have issues with it in any rom including stock TW. Some of these chips are just broken.
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After trying many of the suggestions on this thread to fix the compass (my GPS lock is fine), I thought I might have messed up the hardware somehow. However, last night I flashed the 7/12 KT GE kernel, and the compass now correctly points in the right direction.
Germany?
Hi Dan (or whoever else reads this). Love the ROM! It's amazing. Do you know if it will work in Germany? I went to Mexico a few months ago, and the latest build at the time would not get reception anywhere. Flashing a TW ROM solved the problem, but I would much rather use yours.
Thanks!
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Hi Dan (or whoever else reads this). Love the ROM! It's amazing. Do you know if it will work in Germany? I went to Mexico a few months ago, and the latest build at the time would not get reception anywhere. Flashing a TW ROM solved the problem, but I would much rather use yours.
Thanks!
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Well in case anyone is curious, this ROM gives me great cell service (full signal on Vodaphone.de) but no data in Munich. I tried airplane mode, disabling/enabling data roaming several times and setting the network mode to GSM preferred, but no luck. Flashing the latest release of Hyperdrive ROM allowed me to use data. Oh well.
flashing google edition on verizon s4 on nc5
I'm a noob and can't figure out if i can use safestrap to flash the dandvh google play edition rom.
verizon galaxy s4 on nc5 build, rooted with towel root and running safestrap 3.75
Viper Audio Working?
Does anyone else use Viper Audio with this rom? I find that the audio driver frequently stops processing when I stop playing music and then come back and play again. It will start processing again if I reboot the phone or even kill the Viper gui process. I've tried installing it as a user or system app but hasn't seemed to matter. Anyway, just curious if anyone else was having the same kind of results.
Hi everyone, hoping you all can help me with a problem I'm having with my phone. First, some specs:
ROM: Danvdh GPE 9/30
I am one of those lucky MDK users, I got the phone in May 2013 and rooted early
I had been running the NC5 modem for a while now with no issue. The problem started after I flashed the NG6 modem (from Surge1223's thread) in TWRP. Just fyi, here are the steps I took to flash the modem. Within TWRP, I flashed the zip file, cleared Dalvik/cache, then rebooted.
Almost immediately I started getting random reboots. It rebooted twice, then seemed to settle down, so I decided to wait a day or so to see what my phone would do. Sadly enough, it started rebooting again, so I gave up last night and reflashed the NC5 modem in TWRP using the same method as before. The phone was fine after that, until this afternoon. About an hour ago, my phone froze, and rebooted, but the screen cut off at the Samsung custom padlock boot screen. It seems to be off at this point, but I can't power on the phone without pulling the battery. After pulling and replacing the battery, the phone powers on by itself, but again cuts off at the Samsung boot screen, about 3-4 seconds into the boot process. I've tried booting into TWRP and download mode, with the screen turning off and the device seemingly freezing after 3-4 seconds. I'm at a loss as to what to do at this point.
I'm at work right now, but when I get home, I will see if Odin3 can make some sort of contact with the phone. Any help in the meantime would be greatly appreciated!
Sounds like you may have a bad dl. Re download. Turn phone off. Then boot into TWRP and reflash the modem zip. Not the non-halos.zip.
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Sounds like you may have a bad dl. Re download. Turn phone off. Then boot into TWRP and reflash the modem zip. Not the non-halos.zip.
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I would love to, but I can't.
I put a video up on Youtube showing what the phone is doing right now. I don't have 10 posts yet, so I can't post links, but if you go to youtube.com then add "/watch?v=3ey5xD9LodY" at the end of the URL, you can see what the phone is doing.
It is the only thing the phone will do. I've tried doing a hard reset by holding the power button, but nothing happens. All I can do is pull the battery and start this process again. If I hold the correct button combos, I can begin to boot into TWRP or download mode, but the phone cuts off/freezes like clockwork after 3 seconds.
I tried to get Odin3 to recognize the phone, but my desktop doesn't recognize that anything is plugged in when I connect my phone to it, so Odin3 by extension doesn't see anything.
Did you install the Samsung apps on your computer? You need them for the computer to recognize your phone.
To hard boot into recovery you need to hold power button and volume up at the same time, then let go of power button once blue writing appears on upper corner of phone.
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I'm sure I have. I've been able to send adb commands to the phone in the past. Now however, my PC doesn't even see that a device has been connected to it (nothing shows up in the device manager, not even an unrecognized device).
The phone will no longer charge when I plug it into an AC adapter either (or at least the LED no longer lights up indicating it's charging).
I have tried booting into recovery several times. Each time, it will begin to boot into TWRP, the blue text, "RECOVERY BOOTING...", will display, then immediately afterwards, the screen will cut off and the phone will freeze, just like in the Youtube video I posted.
I'm afraid the thing is bricked...
So, I was talking to a friend about what's been going on with my phone. During the conversation, I started goofing around and smacking the back of the phone like 4-year-old me would an NES to try and make it work (ah, good times...). Believe it or not (and I did not touch the power button while doing this), the phone powered up and successfully booted!!!
It showed only 2% battery life, so I connected it to the AC adapter, but then a few seconds later the phone died again.
This occurrence leads me to believe there is something wrong with the battery, and leads me to another question. Can the S4 (or any other smartphone) run solely on USB power?
My roommate has a Galaxy SIII, I read the SIII battery can be used in the S4, so I will test the phone out with his battery when he gets back tomorrow, and update you then.
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So, I was talking to a friend about what's been going on with my phone. During the conversation, I started goofing around and smacking the back of the phone like 4-year-old me would an NES to try and make it work (ah, good times...). Believe it or not (and I did not touch the power button while doing this), the phone powered up and successfully booted!!!
It showed only 2% battery life, so I connected it to the AC adapter, but then a few seconds later the phone died again.
This occurrence leads me to believe there is something wrong with the battery, and leads me to another question. Can the S4 (or any other smartphone) run solely on USB power?
My roommate has a Galaxy SIII, I read the SIII battery can be used in the S4, so I will test the phone out with his battery when he gets back tomorrow, and update you then.
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Have you tried a different USB cable/transformer? It sounds like you might just have a charging issue. Not enough juice to get it started.
Allowing a battery to cool down will give it more usable power, which as it heats back up will deplete again. This sounds like your situation... Power off for a few, restart it has enough to begin booting, then depleted again.
The phone cannot run on USB alone it needs the battery to sustain it's operation.
I have tried 3 USB cables, 2 AC adapters, and 2 PCs.
When this started on Friday, my phone was hooked up to my PC at work and showing about 50% battery, but it's possible something went wrong with the battery and it's stopped delivering any significant amount of power or accepting a charge.
So it turns out it wasn't the rom or new modem that was the problem, my battery has decided to kick the bucket. I tried my roommate's battery in my phone and it booted right up as if nothing was ever wrong! Strange that an OEM battery would just die like that, but I suppose that does happen from time to time. Thanks for the help!
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Does anyone else use Viper Audio with this rom? I find that the audio driver frequently stops processing when I stop playing music and then come back and play again. It will start processing again if I reboot the phone or even kill the Viper gui process. I've tried installing it as a user or system app but hasn't seemed to matter. Anyway, just curious if anyone else was having the same kind of results.
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I use it, and I've never had any issues with it. I would recommend reinstalling, but you've probably tried that already. Are you using the latest version of the app?
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I use it, and I've never had any issues with it. I would recommend reinstalling, but you've probably tried that already. Are you using the latest version of the app?
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Yeah, I have tried reinstalling it, and I am using the latest version of the app. The fact that you haven't had any issues is encouraging. I'll continue to troubleshoot and see what I can find.
I keep getting this (in CWM touch)
Flashing Google Play Edition
Android 4.4.4
Enjoy!
format() expects 5 args, got 4
E: Error in /storage/sdcard1/danvdh-GE-4.4.4-09-30-2014-VZW.zip
(status 7)
installation aborted
Is it just a bad DL?
EDIT: Tried a new DL, same issue. I want to get this fixed asap
Is cm11 theme manager included in this rom?
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Is cm11 theme manager included in this rom?
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It is not.
Hi there! Long time reader, first time poster (TL;DR below...but it should be a quick read anyways )
So I've been using this S2 of mine for almost 4 years now, haven't had any trouble (other than a couple of battery swaps). For the past 6 months or so I've been using CM 12.1 nightlies without issue.
The events:
- The other day, my phone froze (I wasn't using it when it froze, it was when I went to use it that I noticed...it was on the wifi selection screen if it matters), so I held the power button to shut it down, and when I powered it back up, it just froze at the Samsung boot screen (with the usual yellow triangle).
- At this point, I was able to reboot into download mode at will, but any attempt to boot to recovery just led to the freeze at the Samsung boot screen. Also, the phone would automatically reboot itself at this point any time I inserted the battery (I was of course putting the battery in and out trying everything I could).
- I would have reflashed from Odin at this point, but since I was away for a few days I just kept trying to reboot into recovery, to no avail. On one of these attempts (power+vol up+ home) it showed the Samsung boot screen, and then immediately shut down and I haven't been able to get anything onto the screen since
I'm now home, and I can't seem to fix it. If I plug the phone into a charger, the top half or so of the phone gets warm, and it also seems to get warm if it isn't plugged in and I try to power it up. I was thinking maybe the phone was maybe doing the same thing as before and just not showing anything on screen, but I blindly do the steps to get it into download mode, and Odin doesn't recognize anything (drivers are definitely installed). I have also tried other batteries, no luck.
Any ideas of what I might try? I'm willing to do anything. For the record nothing happened to the phone at all when this all happened (no dropping or water damage or anything, just my attempts at booting into recovery). Maybe I should try a jig? I'm also open to opening the phone if there's something I can do, though I don't have experience with this.
Thanks so much for any suggestions!
TL;DR: phone froze (running CM 12.1 nightly), held power to shut it down, and then consistently froze at the boot screen on any attempts to power it on. After a few attempts at booting into recovery (the phone would only freeze or enter download mode) the screen suddenly shut off and I haven't seen anything on it since no matter what I try. I can't think of anything that happened to the phone I'm open to any and all suggestions! Thanks
One sentence amongst your description stands out like a 'sore thumb'.....
That the device heats up towards the top when you attempt to charge it.......
Until you try a jig I can't be certain, but that heating coupled with a dead/unresponsive screen along with a lack of recovery and/or download modes (download mode is 'hardwired' into the device, and NOTHING should be able to corrupt it) are the primary symptoms of a failed motherboard.......
That is my opinion based on my experience in these forums and personal experience with a (now dead) S2 (one of two that I own).........
Get the jig just to be sure, but I'd be surprised if it had any effect.....sorry to be typing something you don't want to read, but you said it yourself, the device is 4 years old....it's been in service roughly twice as long as most smartphones, and they don't last forever....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Thanks dude! It's nice to have some idea of what happened. I am indeed very happy my phone has lasted me this long, and my friend is gonna give me an extra S2 she has anyways it seems so it's all good!
I'll try the jig and update here with the result (I ordered one online...will arrive in January sometime)...just in case anyone is curious.
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Thanks dude! It's nice to have some idea of what happened. I am indeed very happy my phone has lasted me this long, and my friend is gonna give me an extra S2 she has anyways it seems so it's all good!
I'll try the jig and update here with the result (I ordered one online...will arrive in January sometime)...just in case anyone is curious.
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Yeah....be good to know the results.....If only to confirm or refute what I've suggested.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Yeah....be good to know the results.....If only to confirm or refute what I've suggested.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Sorry it took me a while...the jig was in the post haha. It didn't do anything at all (no response when I plugged it in) so I think it's safe to say you were bang-on and the motherboard failed! Happily using a new S2 (with CM13.0 now ) on behalf of my friend though.
Thanks again.
Sounds familiar. Happened to me also due to failed cyanogenmod update (CM13). Only thing that works is download mode, so i'm not given up hope yet.
I can't post a link but google ''Apply Update Failure samsung galaxy s II'' there's a thread about this on the cyanogenmod forum.
Elaias said:
Sounds familiar. Happened to me also due to failed cyanogenmod update (CM13). Only thing that works is download mode, so i'm not given up hope yet.
I can't post a link but google ''Apply Update Failure samsung galaxy s II'' there's a thread about this on the cyanogenmod forum.
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oh mine was just straight up dead...no download mode or anything visible on the screen (and nothing to do with CM13 either)
hope you get yours sorted out! have you tried reflashing anything via Odin while in download mode?
Its hard to tell you and hard to accept. You can almost give up the hope, your NAND Chip is just what we call " wear-out ". In the most cases no write is possible anymore, the funny part is -> sometimes read is still fine. If that is the case: The system is booting and working, but saving just nothing. The NAND is frozen to its state before it broke.
At our local store, customers come to us with issues like " Factory Reset impossible ", "Can't delete my Files" "Can't create files". All these Devices have inaccessible NAND's and inaccessible Recovery. Only Bootloader is working, but as the NAND is broken, flashing doesn't change anything.
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oh mine was just straight up dead...no download mode or anything visible on the screen (and nothing to do with CM13 either)
hope you get yours sorted out! have you tried reflashing anything via Odin while in download mode?
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yeah, flashing with odin did the trick. now running cm13 and everything works fine. sorry to hear that your phone turned to brick.
I was using my phone normally tonight and it keeps rebooting spontaneously. Sometimes it makes it back into the system, sometimes it doesn't even get that far. I do have it rooted with TWRP and I can get into recovery. I cleared cache/davlik cache and during one bootup, it make it as far as optimizing apps, but rebooted again about 10 apps in.
I'm currently on xdabbeb's 46A.
I can get into TWRP by holding down power/volume down where I get to a grey system recovery screen. I then choose the wipe cache option and then it gets me into TWRP.
I'm in TWRP and trying to flash xdabbeb's 47a and the phone screen just goes off in the middle of the flash and I need to do a battery pull to get it back. It dies at different points along the way in the flash each time I try. Temp is only around 66C last time it crashed.
Any chance flashing to something old fixes this? Doesn't seem like that would help any considering that it's dying in TWRP. Sure seems like a hardware issue to me if it's crashing in TWRP, no?
Any suggestions at this point? Please Help!
I figured at this point, why not, and I'm trying to .kdz to 12b. I ran the update tool and I got the connection to server failed error, but clicked through it and I've got the upgrading your phone box, but the time elapsed isn't counting up. On my phone, I've got a green COM3, progress indicator at 0% and then in the box below it says some stuff with the last 2 lines being
VS98547A
VS98512B
After a bit, the text on the screen gets garbled all over (same thing happens in TWRP) and then the screen goes blank and I guess the phone is off at that point after a few seconds more, the LG Flash tool says upgrade stopped due to an error.
At this point, I can't get into TWRP anymore, just the firmware update screen. I guess I'll leave everything unplugged and try again in the am, but not very hopeful.
I think I'm screwed with a bad phone.
Any other ideas here?
Seems like the longer I keep the battery out, the longer it works before it dies again. Almost like it keeps overheating, but the phone certainly doesn't feel hot nor is it doing anything strenuous right before it dies.
I really don't see how this isn't obviously a hardware failure, but I also now that it's relatively rare that hardware just flat out fails. But, with what I'm seeing it crashing in recovery and download mode, I don't see how it's software.
I was able to kdz to 12b, but same thing happens. After a little while, it just freezes and turns off.
No improvement leaving phone without the battery overnight. Booted up on 12b clean and rebooted maybe a minute in. Got back into 12b and then it froze and powered off.
Don't see how this isn't hardware failure.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Do you have an aftermarket battery? Crazy stuff can happen with some of them, though that sounds like a long shot with your symptoms. Inspect battery terminals for corrosion/damage also. Sure sounds like a hardware failure to me too though. Especially when you mention the screen tearing/artifacts even in TWRP. There's been some G3 problems where the screen will flicker and fade to black, this sounds similar. The fix (or temp fix?) for that was shimming the camera connector on the motherboard, and/or baking the motherboard to reflow cold/weak solder joints. http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...y-lg-g3-screen-flicker-fades-darkness-13.html
If it gets to a point where you try a reflow, consider adding a thermal pad to the CPU when you reassemble it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/experimenting-hardware-mod-t2845220
I was recently having all sorts of weird issues no matter what KDZ I flashed. It wasn't until I flashed the 10B TOT (TOTs flash more than KDZs do) that the problems went away.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I was recently having all sorts of weird issues no matter what KDZ I flashed. It wasn't until I flashed the 10B TOT (TOTs flash more than KDZs do) that the problems went away.
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Weird issues as in the phone just turning off or rebooting a few seconds after the OS loads as well as tearing on the screen (saw that both in download mode and in TWRP)? I'm getting the green screen every so often too.
Ok, I guess I'll give that a shot, but I'd be stunned if this wasn't a flat out hardware issue.
Took me a few tries to even flash 12B kdz before the phone stayed on long enough to complete.
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Weird issues as in the phone just turning off or rebooting a few seconds after the OS loads as well as tearing on the screen (saw that both in download mode and in TWRP)? I'm getting the green screen every so often too.
Ok, I guess I'll give that a shot, but I'd be stunned if this wasn't a flat out hardware issue.
Took me a few tries to even flash 12B kdz before the phone stayed on long enough to complete.
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No, I was having different weird issues, but that doesn't mean the solution isn't the same. Obviously, I can't know that's the solution - just that if you were able to eventually get it to flash a KDZ and that didn't solve it, it's worth trying the 10B TOT. There are other partitions not flashed with KDZs. If any of them got corrupted (as mine must have somehow), only the TOT will restore them.
I'm not betting either way what your results will be.
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No, I was having different weird issues, but that doesn't mean the solution isn't the same. Obviously, I can't know that's the solution - just that if you were able to eventually get it to flash a KDZ and that didn't solve it, it's worth trying the 10B TOT. There are other partitions not flashed with KDZs. If any of them got corrupted (as mine must have somehow), only the TOT will restore them.
I'm not betting either way what your results will be.
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I'll give it a shot and post back. At least it's good practice on how to TOT if the new phone comes with 35B or newer.
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No, I was having different weird issues, but that doesn't mean the solution isn't the same. Obviously, I can't know that's the solution - just that if you were able to eventually get it to flash a KDZ and that didn't solve it, it's worth trying the 10B TOT. There are other partitions not flashed with KDZs. If any of them got corrupted (as mine must have somehow), only the TOT will restore them.
I'm not betting either way what your results will be.
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Doesn't seem like I can even keep the phone on long enough to get the TOT to download. I get the yellow Ready in LG FLash tool after I click start, but waited a while there and nothing happened. Before anything ever started downloading to the phone, the phone crashed. Hard to keep it on long enough even to get it into download mode now. Seems like it was on for a while after the first time I put it on this afternoon after I hadn't used it all day. Like it seems like it's a heat issue, but the phone isn't hot.
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Doesn't seem like I can even keep the phone on long enough to get the TOT to download. I get the yellow Ready in LG FLash tool after I click start, but waited a while there and nothing happened. Before anything ever started downloading to the phone, the phone crashed. Hard to keep it on long enough even to get it into download mode now. Seems like it was on for a while after the first time I put it on this afternoon after I hadn't used it all day. Like it seems like it's a heat issue, but the phone isn't hot.
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When you get the yellow Ready, you're supposed to unplug the phone for a second and then replug it in, then after a moment it'll continue.
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When you get the yellow Ready, you're supposed to unplug the phone for a second and then replug it in, then after a moment it'll continue.
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Yes, figured that out with the new phone. But, with the old phone, I couldn't even get it to not crash long enough to get to that point. Maybe once I got a little past that before it did.
I don't see how it's not a hardware problem if it's just turning itself off in download mode.
New phone works great and was relatively cheap and came in decent enough condition.
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Yes, figured that out with the new phone. But, with the old phone, I couldn't even get it to not crash long enough to get to that point. Maybe once I got a little past that before it did.
I don't see how it's not a hardware problem if it's just turning itself off in download mode.
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Yep, it's possible!
New phone works great and was relatively cheap and came in decent enough condition.
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That's good to hear!
So I've had my Verizon LG G3 for almost two years now and was just about to get off the payment plan where my bill would go down by $23 a month and the good news was that I still really liked this phone and planned on keeping it. My son has the same phone and there are times he's running out of battery life, so I purchased one extra battery and external charger from LG...for only $20 total. Great deal...but now I'm regretting it.
About two weeks after switching out batteries at times, my phone started acting up. First it was 'SIM card not found', but a reboot usually fixed that. Then started the reboots...which eventually led to a boot-loop failure. Factory reset, and I'm back up an running for a few days, but then the problems started again. So after a few iterations of this, I decide to root the phone and load it up with CM13. I followed the tutorial on this site and it worked flawlessly. Within a few hours I was able to go down to 10B, root, and upgrade to CM13. The phone worked great.....for 3 days. Then the boot-loops started again.
Now if I try to reset the phone through TWRP, I get to the install process and the phone dies partway through. I even tried to use the LG Flash Tool to go back to stock, but after the process starts, I get to about 17% - 25% complete and my phone turns off...while plugged in.
Basically, I believe this thing got totally screwed up with the new battery somehow. I'll try send it in to LG, but of course its off warranty, so I'm not expecting much other than a charge to fix it. I'll let you know what they say.
If the cost is too high, or they won't fix it for free, I'm onto a new phone and it definitely will NOT be an LG. I'm thinking Google, Motorola or Samsung...not sure which one yet.
Advice to most...be very careful of switching batteries, even with OEM. That's when all the problems started for me.
Ignore me. [emoji12]
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Was both a question and information, but I appreciate the thought. Reported it.
Thanks, and sorry. Gads, ignore me again. I'm apparently not reading well today.