So I'm having this issue with my phone after screwing up my ROM, it's not a hardware issue. What I did to mess up my phone is I installed a custom boot up animation to replace my default AT&T one, and after that my screen is now completely black unless you rotate it sideways. I've tried factory hard resetting it, but still no luck...I lost my root and I still cannot see the left half of my screen.
I do not have my bootloader unlocked and now I don't even have root access...Factory hard resetting the phone did no good. The only time you can see the whole screen is when you first boot up the phone and when you shut down the phone when the shut down animation is active.
I'm guessing I need to completely reinstall my ROM, but I don't know how without being able to see the left half of my screen.
I'm using an LG Optimus G Pro E980, any help is appreciated, thanks!
I fixed it...All I had to do was download a .TOT and a .kdz file of my device firmware to my PC and flash the firmware on to my phone using download mode.
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I am a "noob" to android but have always gotten elbow deep into computers so i figured I would take a crack at it. Well it cracked me back and now I am stuck and help would be great....
I have an ascend II cricket phone, I rooted the phone using a guide foud on www,theunlockr,com and everthing was good. Iflashed a couple different roms and still no problems but I couldn't find one that had everthing I wanted so I decided to dig deeper.
I reflashed the phone back to stock with no problems and started changing little thing like sounds and the boot animation and then I went for broke and tried flashing a kernel that was supposed to enable multi-touch on the display - BRICK-!
I once again reflashed back to stock and installed the android updateds to bring my as current as the ascend to gets and re-did all my custom sounds and graphics.
This is where things go bad, I put everything back on the phone (battery, back plate, and hard plastic holster) and inadvertently put the holster on upside down so when I powered the phone on the two volume buttons where being held in by the holster and it once again started to re-flash the firmware, I didn't want to mess it up and yank the battery mid process so i let it run and it never came back .
At current the phone powers on but freezes at the oem boot logo. I have tried with no sucess to enter both fastboot and recovery, however I can still re-flash the firmware. When connected to my pc the computer recognizes that the device is plugged in only if I boot the phone while holding both volume buttons in with out an sd card inserted. This brings me to a blank pink screen. even though windows sees it there is no communication to the device.
I downloaded the stock firmware from several different source but they all produce the same result.
Also every 15 minutes or so the screen goes blank, vibrates and the boot logo comes back on, obviously the phone is trying to do something so I feel as though all is not lost, any advice or ideas as to what I can do from here would be greatly appreciated. (i tried to make sure I included all the details of my situation if there is anything else I or you need to know just ask.)
Before the incident, I had root, no unlocked bootloader, stock JB, v20h.
What had happened was I was trying the Font Installer app in th Play Store because of the added customization that would have been nice.
I found a cool font, and I backed up my current fonts and then pressed install. SuperSU asked for permissions like normal and then my phone restarted.
Then it was so that my phone was stuck at the T-Mobile boot animation after the LG Logo. For about 15 minutes. This is where I believed something was starting to go very wrong. After contemplating for a few extra minutes, I decided to just take out the battery and restart. Same outcome. I thought of all the things that were on the phone thus far because I had just gotten it recently, and decided that it wouldn't hurt me to just do a hard reset by pressing home + vol down + power. Everything went smoothly. Except for the fact that even after I did that, it was leaving me at the T-Mobile screen.
I decided to look on the forums for development and tried to do the unbrick method, to no avail after about 3 hours now. I used the LG User Support Tool and since I hadn't updated to V20f, I decided to do that to see if it would solve my problem. It still didn't, and I'll be honest, I'm a little upset just typing this right now.
I also tried the Upgrade Recovery option and it warmed my heart to see that the process was actually starting. But right at the screen where it says that it is supposed to be downloading something, it freezes up and nothing happens no matter how long I wait. I saw somewhere that it should be a glowing red bar, but I do not see that anywhere, it is just frozen, saying Time Elapsed: 00:12. And before anyone asks, yes, I ran absolutely everything as an administrator.
Is there any possible way to bring this phone back? Any help would be immensely appreciated. Thank you in advanced.
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Before the incident, I had root, no unlocked bootloader, stock JB, v20h.
What had happened was I was trying the Font Installer app in th Play Store because of the added customization that would have been nice.
I found a cool font, and I backed up my current fonts and then pressed install. SuperSU asked for permissions like normal and then my phone restarted.
Then it was so that my phone was stuck at the T-Mobile boot animation after the LG Logo. For about 15 minutes. This is where I believed something was starting to go very wrong. After contemplating for a few extra minutes, I decided to just take out the battery and restart. Same outcome. I thought of all the things that were on the phone thus far because I had just gotten it recently, and decided that it wouldn't hurt me to just do a hard reset by pressing home + vol down + power. Everything went smoothly. Except for the fact that even after I did that, it was leaving me at the T-Mobile screen.
I decided to look on the forums for development and tried to do the unbrick method, to no avail after about 3 hours now. I used the LG User Support Tool and since I hadn't updated to V20f, I decided to do that to see if it would solve my problem. It still didn't, and I'll be honest, I'm a little upset just typing this right now.
I also tried the Upgrade Recovery option and it warmed my heart to see that the process was actually starting. But right at the screen where it says that it is supposed to be downloading something, it freezes up and nothing happens no matter how long I wait. I saw somewhere that it should be a glowing red bar, but I do not see that anywhere, it is just frozen, saying Time Elapsed: 00:12. And before anyone asks, yes, I ran absolutely everything as an administrator.
Is there any possible way to bring this phone back? Any help would be immensely appreciated. Thank you in advanced.
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did you hard reset? then turn off your phone disconnect the battery, connect to the pc holding the volume up button? then try the Update Recovery?
i would just go through that process over and over until it works, theres not really a way to brick this phone i've heard...
CROSSFREEZE said:
did you hard reset? then turn off your phone disconnect the battery, connect to the pc holding the volume up button? then try the Update Recovery?
i would just go through that process over and over until it works, theres not really a way to brick this phone i've heard...
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Thank you for your reply! I have tried hard resetting multiple times, but I had removed some bloatware apps (I will quarantine them next time instead because I don't wanna go through this ever again) and I have tried the kdz method to only be stuck at 15% every time when I followed instructions to the pixel. I have tried to do it on windows 7 and windows 8. I have also tried the fastboot method by lelus, and that manages to "work" but I am still stuck at the tmobile boot screen afterwards. I have gotten the hang of the process of getting into the fastboot, but what do I do from there? I chose to flash ics xloader and uboot, but the process goes by so fast, I'm not even sure it is doing anything. The LG Tool has really gotten me nowhere, it just gives me a lovely error and then cannot continue the upgrade recovery process.
It said somewhere that after I flash through the fastboot I then have to try the kdz method, so I am going to do that now and see if it works. I don't know if there would be a difference between flashing a jb kdz or an ics kdz, but I will just do ics to be on the safe side.
I am quite happy to say that flashing the ics kdz was successful, and my phone is now up and running.
My p769BK is stuck on the LG screen. /: months
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im terrible with fastboot, i used the unlock the bootloader for noobs with an offline flash.
heres what i did to get out of bootloops....
alright, this is all from memory but the offline flash didnt work as well for me when stuck in weird bootloops.
Step one-going back to online flash---->
A---
the easiest way i found was to go to C:/windows/system32/drivers/ect/hosts
right click>open with notepad
there should be two lines at the bottom
"127.0.0.1 csmg.lgmobile.com
127.0.0.1 csmgdl.lgmobile.com"
i would cut them out and paste them in a text doc in the same folder for reference later...
but either way you should remove them from the hosts file and save
B----
Make sure your small server is closed! once you minimize it it should go down to your status bar (shttps)
Step two-LGMS---->
make sure you have LG mobile support installed or install it.
open lg mobile support
install needed drivers for your phone
power your phone off/remove the battery
put battery back in
connect it to your computer holding down the volume up button
S/W UPDATE mode should pop up, if it doesn't preform and hardreset and try again til it works (it will)
then in the top right corner there should be a button or two click them both until you see
"restore update" or Update restore or something to that effect
select that
and let it ride man
i got my phone ****ed many times and just had to keep redoing this until it worked. if your bootloader is truely unlocked you can probably go through all that again and get CM10 working, i did but im still working through kinks.....
GOOD LUCK feel free to ask any more Q's about this process if you run into any problems
A little while ago I was reading about how to install a custom bootloader using Rom toolbox. Rom toolbox comes with a list of bootloaders that others have made, I went ahead and installed it, and rebooted my Warp. As it was loading, I noticed that the loader was not the resolution of my phone, so after the phone loaded i went ahead and fixed the resolution with an option that pops up. After I modified it to my screen resolution, I previewed it to make sure it looked alright, and it looked great, full screen and all! So I then went ahead and reset my phone after just making the loader big enough for my resolution, and to my surprise, it ended up just giveing me an endless black screen... I can boot into recovery, but I don't exactly want to Factory reset and loose all my stuff. Is there any way to undo the filechange, or something without loosing all my stuff?
P.S. I don't have CWM
Hi everybody I am quite new to Android and might have bricked my phone, this is my current situation:
Was on Verizon's 24a stock rom and deiced to alter the DPI, something I have done before
I did not like the change and set the DPI back to the normal 480 that it came with
When rebooting the LG logo is flashed and then nothing just a black screen, however the notification light was changing colors as normal
I left the phone to boot for a while (about an hour) and still nothing has happened
I can get into download mode but have no custom recovery (regret)
I tried factory resting the phone through holding the buttons on the back to get to a menu then selecting factory reset but nothing happens
I feel I have tried everything please help
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Hi everybody I am quite new to Android and might have bricked my phone, this is my current situation:
Was on Verizon's 24a stock rom and deiced to alter the DPI, something I have done before
I did not like the change and set the DPI back to the normal 480 that it came with
When rebooting the LG logo is flashed and then nothing just a black screen, however the notification light was changing colors as normal
I left the phone to boot for a while (about an hour) and still nothing has happened
I can get into download mode but have no custom recovery (regret)
I tried factory resting the phone through holding the buttons on the back to get to a menu then selecting factory reset but nothing happens
I feel I have tried everything please help
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You're going to need to restore the phone to stock. A factory reset would not affect the build.prop since it's part of /system and not /data.
Everything you need can be referenced from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2706389
Hello to whom may come upon this,
I flashed the v20-g8 engineer-laf file on my lg g8 att lg820UMi. I cannot personally boot back into my phone, nor even go into factory hard reset. When I boot into factory hard reset mode it does carry me to the finalized, "Do you wanna really reset all personal data etc...". But it just freezes after I press yes, and does not do nothing. I was trying to bootloader unlock my phone, but it was the wrong file or wrong format. It freezes in DL mode initially booting into DL mode and I can't access fastboot. Check s/n and imei does and factory reset yes, but continuing to actually factory reset and pressing the final yes; it hangs. So I do not know what to do. Rather there is an hardware fix to this internally or to just throw this phone in the trash. the digitizer on the phone is cracked, but the oled panel is still intact. Maybe someone could buy it for the microphone pieces and frame, but the motherboard on this phone is ****ed. I guess the boot.img is corrupted or whatever the bios to booting is dis-logged. Can anyone help? I wish it would just run the factory reset program fully then my system could restore itself, but we all know that the lg g8x att version does not have an kdz to be flashed plus the computer cant pick it up or communicate with the phone because it freezes in DL mode. Please help. I actually sort of love my phone(s). First time ever bricking an phone and usually an way out the hole but its like lg forced my in a ditch. Bad thing is I actually advertised this phone pretty well. LG cough...cough...do better or stop making phones for att because ATT is pretty stuck up because there towers and routers do the talk these days then their software. Ugh... Wasted my stimulus money
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Shryvone21 said:
Hello to whom may come upon this,
I flashed the v20-g8 engineer-laf file on my lg g8 att lg820UMi. I cannot personally boot back into my phone, nor even go into factory hard reset. When I boot into factory hard reset mode it does carry me to the finalized, "Do you wanna really reset all personal data etc...". But it just freezes after I press yes, and does not do nothing. I was trying to bootloader unlock my phone, but it was the wrong file or wrong format. It freezes in DL mode initially booting into DL mode and I can't access fastboot. Check s/n and imei does and factory reset yes, but continuing to actually factory reset and pressing the final yes; it hangs. So I do not know what to do. Rather there is an hardware fix to this internally or to just throw this phone in the trash. the digitizer on the phone is cracked, but the oled panel is still intact. Maybe someone could buy it for the microphone pieces and frame, but the motherboard on this phone is ****ed. I guess the boot.img is corrupted or whatever the bios to booting is dis-logged. Can anyone help? I wish it would just run the factory reset program fully then my system could restore itself, but we all know that the lg g8x att version does not have an kdz to be flashed plus the computer cant pick it up or communicate with the phone because it freezes in DL mode. Please help. I actually sort of love my phone(s). First time ever bricking an phone and usually an way out the hole but its like lg forced my in a ditch. Bad thing is I actually advertised this phone pretty well. LG cough...cough...do better or stop making phones for att because ATT is pretty stuck up because there towers and routers do the talk these days then their software. Ugh... Wasted my stimulus money
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bro enter edl and restore your stock file,i mean restore the stock file of which you loaded (backup fiile)
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bro enter edl and restore your stock file,i mean restore the stock file of which you loaded (backup fiile)
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I can't enter into dl mode at all...my phone is fuccked....
Did you come to any kind of solution? im in a very similar situation.