Any way to recover from chip erase? - LG V30 Questions & Answers

So I accidentally hit chip erase instead of partition dll in the lgup tool and now I just get the fastboot screen........ Damn........ Any way to recover from this? It's a ls998 I was flashing to US998

You could try downloading US99820b_03_0524.kdz from here
From that same thread, download the patched LGUP, install it, and use that to flash the .KDZ using partition - DL.
After it's finished, you will most likely boot back into bootloader. From there, do the following:
-Hold Volume Down + Power button
-As soon as the LG V30 logo appears, quickly let go of the power button ONLY and then press and hold it once again.
-A screen regarding resetting your device will appear, select yes for both prompts and hopefully it'll boot.
Huge thanks to @ChazzMatt for the instructions, the KDZ files, and for providing the patched LGUP.

If ALL you have is fastboot you can attempt to flash laf to your device then from there install a kdz

Jbcarrera said:
So I accidentally hit chip erase instead of partition dll in the lgup tool and now I just get the fastboot screen........ Damn........ Any way to recover from this? It's a ls998 I was flashing to US998
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/how-to/using-lgup-crossflashing-t3780969/page7/page7
See posts on that page. Page 7.
Best to open in browser.
You can flash the US998 KDZ, but you've probably wiped it out your serial number and IMEI. You'll have to Google how to restore them.
Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+

Hi.
While trying to find a way to unlock bootloader on LM-Q710MS i accidentally check erase chip from LGUP (patched one) then cancel it while it goes and and then i tried to factory reset from recovery until reboots and went off. no power no cable power no screen...

Jbcarrera said:
So I accidentally hit chip erase instead of partition dll in the lgup tool and now I just get the fastboot screen........ Damn........ Any way to recover from this? It's a ls998 I was flashing to US998
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Hi, did you get any help with this?

d4rkmidian said:
Hi.
While trying to find a way to unlock bootloader on LM-Q710MS i accidentally check erase chip from LGUP (patched one) then cancel it while it goes and and then i tried to factory reset from recovery until reboots and went off. no power no cable power no screen...
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Ho did you solve this

Chip Erase wipes out the IMEI and maybe other things. You may be able to recover by re-setting-up your IMEI, but discussions about how to do this are not allowed on XDA, so you'll have to look elsewhere for that. After that, you may try reflashing a ROM, but I don't know if that will necessarily fix everything or not.

schwinn8 said:
Chip Erase wipes out the IMEI and maybe other things. You may be able to recover by re-setting-up your IMEI, but discussions about how to do this are not allowed on XDA, so you'll have to look elsewhere for that. After that, you may try reflashing a ROM, but I don't know if that will necessarily fix everything or not.
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Am really messed up. I hit erase in LGUP and it deleted the firmware. So, now the phone is just dead. Would you be in a position to link me up with someone with the knowledge of reviving the LG please?

Sorry, I don't. If you can't handle the work yourself, you may need to send it to a shop that can. Otherwise, you're looking at buying a new phone.
I might suggest the latter, since the V30 is quite old anyway. I moved myself to a Galaxy S10+ (not because anything broke, but just because I wanted to upgrade as well, and I didn't want to bother with an old phone, old battery, etc.

schwinn8 said:
Sorry, I don't. If you can't handle the work yourself, you may need to send it to a shop that can. Otherwise, you're looking at buying a new phone.
I might suggest the latter, since the V30 is quite old anyway. I moved myself to a Galaxy S10+ (not because anything broke, but just because I wanted to upgrade as well, and I didn't want to bother with an old phone, old battery, etc.
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Sure, I have a new phone but really just wanted this phone to help (backup). It;s rather still new and would really not want to throw it away. I will google my way around just incase there is a way to recover from chip erase

Collinsaraf said:
Ho did you solve this
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No because I needed heatgun to remove the shield to expose the chip, and find the pin point to bring it to life with a bridge wire and reflash.
For this varient I didn't find any pin points to continue. So I didn't buy a heatgun .
Phone is dead no power, no recognizable with USB or charge.

d4rkmidian said:
No because I needed heatgun to remove the shield to expose the chip, and find the pin point to bring it to life with a bridge wire and reflash.
For this varient I didn't find any pin points to continue. So I didn't buy a heatgun .
Phone is dead no power, no recognizable with USB or charge.
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Oh, sorry for that! Mine is detected when plugged but cannot turn on . It's complicated and it needs patience. What of usb2jtag for LG?

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[Q] Bricked!

So I was doing the whole fastboot thing and during the process of "erasing cache" I accidentally knocked the USB cable out.
Now the phone won't turn on at all, the lights don't even come on nor does the computer detect it when plugged in, it doesn't even display a screen when plugged into a power outlet or anything :-(
what can be done to save it?
Take it you have tried removing the battery and can you get it into Recovery mode
lufc, he may have smae problem as me, fastboot erase CATCH has bricked his phone and till now I cannot find support for this issue eighter.
It was completely dead, no fastboot mode, no recovery mode, even no QDL mode is available.
I am thinking about teardown my DELL and restore the 2G internal microSD, but I have asking for support from other senior guy, but no one have idea about all of this.
SokRatha said:
lufc, he may have smae problem as me, fastboot erase CATCH has bricked his phone and till now I cannot find support for this issue eighter.
It was completely dead, no fastboot mode, no recovery mode, even no QDL mode is available.
I am thinking about teardown my DELL and restore the 2G internal microSD, but I have asking for support from other senior guy, but no one have idea about all of this.
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There is a long thread at MoDaCo that discusses replacing the internal sd card. If you just want to reformat to original the info is there, you just have to weed it out of the noise.
I have just received my streak back from dell. I used the fastboot -w command and had a dead tab.
It spent less than an hour in Budapest, Hungary before being sent back to me.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA Premium App
marvin02 said:
There is a long thread at MoDaCo that discusses replacing the internal sd card. If you just want to reformat to original the info is there, you just have to weed it out of the noise.
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I have read that thread once last time, but my problem is I think fastboot has destroy my internalSD structure and data, so I cannot do "dd ...", I was asking if some one can give me idea on how to format it, or some one can backup his/her internalSD for me.
u can unbricked ur dell streak by jtag
riif box and ort jtag can do it nicely
Do you have the pinouts for DELL streak, I just want to see it before I buy RIFF BOX.
Do I need to tear down the Streak?
The same thing happened to me.
No solution, I'm afraid :/
But, I even didn't use fastboot, my phone had just got empty and wasn't able to turn on since then
Megacamz said:
So I was doing the whole fastboot thing and during the process of "erasing cache" I accidentally knocked the USB cable out.
Now the phone won't turn on at all, the lights don't even come on nor does the computer detect it when plugged in, it doesn't even display a screen when plugged into a power outlet or anything :-(
what can be done to save it?
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Megacamz said:
lufc, he may have smae problem as me, fastboot erase CATCH has bricked his phone and till now I cannot find support for this issue eighter.
It was completely dead, no fastboot mode, no recovery mode, even no QDL mode is available.
I am thinking about teardown my DELL and restore the 2G internal microSD, but I have asking for support from other senior guy, but no one have idea about all of this.
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iivanovic said:
The same thing happened to me.
No solution, I'm afraid :/
But, I even didn't use fastboot, my phone had just got empty and wasn't able to turn on since then
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Since 2 days, I am searching for a solution for the same issue. Has any one got a way to fix.
This thread is old but, Fastboot erase cache super bricks streak5's
the only (might not even work) way of unbricking is dissembling the phone, taking out the innerSD and reformatting it to it's original condition.
The easier way is to avoid fastboot erase, it is never actually needed as factory reset accomplishes essentially the same thing but without the risk of super bricks
I do not remember in which forum I followed such instruction i.e. erase cache. Nevertheless, what do you mean by
taking out the innerSD and reformatting it to it's original condition.
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is there any tutorial for this, because I might do it once I leave with no other option case.
there is a post mentioned previously (either in this thread or on the forum) on how to replace the innerSD
I have not tried it myself so i'm only reposting whawt i know
Any Update on this ? I am stuck with same? Any solution please...
TheManii said:
This thread is old but, Fastboot erase cache super bricks streak5's
the only (might not even work) way of unbricking is dissembling the phone, taking out the innerSD and reformatting it to it's original condition.
The easier way is to avoid fastboot erase, it is never actually needed as factory reset accomplishes essentially the same thing but without the risk of super bricks
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Please let me know how can I format the Internal SD Card after getting it out of Streak....Please!!

[Q] [HOWTO] Phone not responding at all - last chance to repair

My phone is dead dead.... Failed flashing kdz, now it doesn't do anything... What do I do???? Non of those steps worked.
sikario.prk said:
My phone is dead dead.... Failed flashing kdz, now it doesn't do anything... What do I do???? Non of those steps worked.
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Hmmm, does removing the battery, reinserting it and pressing Back + Volume Up + Power at least produce the yellow Emergency mode screen?
Flash lg 10b stock rom with the help of kdz in emergency mode...
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App
yeah it will help u out jst tke out ur battery for few sec thn switch ur phone in emergency mode n connect with kdz n flash any lg 10.b. 10d rom
sikario.prk said:
My phone is dead dead.... Failed flashing kdz, now it doesn't do anything... What do I do???? Non of those steps worked.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314 follow this guidee nads make sure u have taken necessary precaution while flashing from kdz everything is mentioned in downgrading the phone in the link here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038338
Was a flashing fail error. I left the phone without battery all night, and still nothing. PC doesn't detect it, or nothing.
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Was a flashing fail error. I left the phone without battery all night, and still nothing. PC doesn't detect it, or nothing.
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Care to answer my question?
doktornotor said:
Hmmm, does removing the battery, reinserting it and pressing Back + Volume Up + Power at least produce the yellow Emergency mode screen?
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Did and nothing, even left phone without battery all night. No emergency mode, or anything
sikario.prk said:
Did and nothing, even left phone without battery all night. No emergency mode, or anything
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Well. RMA it then, nothing we could do here.
doktornotor said:
Well. RMA it then, nothing we could do here.
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I'm kinda noob here, whats RMA? And, can I take it to warranty?
sikario.prk said:
whats RMA? And, can I take it to warranty?
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RMA and claim warranty is the same thing.
doktornotor said:
RMA and claim warranty is the same thing.
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Oh, lol, thanks.
Talked with a support agent from LG, they gave me an Authorization number that a have to write on the shipping box with the phone... Lets see what happens
If you have the TMo optimus T, use the V10L kdz file. The flashing utility has a force mode that WILL work even if the computer does not detect the phone. You just have to make sure that nothing else is plugged into the USB port, and that your phone will power up.
I've bricked my phone 3 times now fiddling with removing stuff from the LIB directory from the stock rom (stupid me) and have always been able to recover it.
crashff said:
If you have the TMo optimus T, use the V10L kdz file. The flashing utility has a force mode that WILL work even if the computer does not detect the phone. You just have to make sure that nothing else is plugged into the USB port, and that your phone will power up.
I've bricked my phone 3 times now fiddling with removing stuff from the LIB directory from the stock rom (stupid me) and have always been able to recover it.
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KDZ updater?
I think it was. I'll have to dig out the file from my android stuff when I get home.
V10L_00.KDZ file and the english KDZ_FW_UP program.
the mode used was CS EMERGENCY.
crashff said:
I think it was. I'll have to dig out the file from my android stuff when I get home.
V10L_00.KDZ file and the english KDZ_FW_UP program.
the mode used was CS EMERGENCY.
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Ok, pop me a msg, my last option to revive it, is sending it to LG
Did a conversion to original 2.2.2 V10q with KDZ and when turning on the phone, it didn;t turn on (as expected). Not responding at all. Power, button combination or some @#@# like that - not working. So, sent it to LG Service through VDF Romania 4 days ago and now i have a new PCB with new IMEI and a fully working P500. So, that was my solution for meddling with updaters, ROM's, etc. and forgetting to disable LGE Modem in Device Manager (it was late at night)

Trying to go back to Stock P769

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surenzxx said:
I recently installed CyanogenMod with the Unlock Bootloader for noobs and I noticed the internal SD wasn't mounted. So I tried to flash an ICS ROM to see if it would work but it didn't. I was stuck at the boot screen. I tried restoring an ICS CWM backup and a JB backup but it didn't work. Currently, I have a flashed JB backup with a messed up touchscreen (because of the way I unlocked the boot-loader). It won't boot and I don't know how I can install the stock ROM. I really just want my phone to work at this point. I don't know if there's any way to use the offline method to flash a .kdz since I can't access android. I tried hard resetting, but when I do it starts up Clock Work Mod which I believe happens because of the way I unlocked boot-loader.
I'm trying to use this guide to fix it using SW upgrade. I did find a .bin and .fls which i'm downloading right now.
If anyone could help or give some advice that would be great. I really just want to use my phone, I don't care about flashing a custom ROM right now. As long as my phone works, I'll be happy.
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Let me know if this works for you! Also you can do the offline fix just as long as you can get into S/W Upgrade mode. But I am curious to see if you can use the bin/fls files tool that you mentioned to get your phone working again.
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surenzxx said:
Thanks for the reply! I'm planning on trying this method out tomorrow and ,if you don't mind, could you please elaborate on how I can do the offline fix with S/W Upgrade mode? I'll check back on the forum tomorrow!
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Well just get your phone into S/W Upgrade mode and follow this tutorial. Getting into S/W Upgrade:
1. Get stock ROM here.
2. Turn off your phone
3. Press and hold the vol + button while inserting USB to computer
4. Keep holding the vol + until you see the S/W upgrade mode
5. Flash ROM with tutorial mentioned above.
Good Luck!
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surenzxx said:
Isn't that just an infobank of all the KDZs? I'm pretty new, but can you flash a kdz with the offline method? To clarify, I was asking how to flash the kdz with the offline method in S/W upgrade mode. So ROMs/KDZs are essentially the same, right?
Edit: I read everything over again and realized what KDZs really are. I'm just wondering now if I could just hard reset in some other way because the LG Update Tool doesn't recognize my phone even though I see all the drivers. It's stuck at 15%.
Edit 2: I tried the method I suggested and it resulted with "Magic number does not concide".
So I'm stuck here with a phone that is stuck in bootloop, and has CWM installed. Can anyone help?
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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
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surenzxx said:
Hello! Sorry for the late reply. Before I start, do you mean LG Mobile Support form when I unlocked the boot-loader, if not could you provide a link to it? And by the way, when I tried hard resetting, the phone sent me back to CWM, any ideas why?
I was reading the CM10.2 notes yesterday and I realized there isn't supposed to be an internal SD card showing up when you plug in your phone to your PC. So I did tried fixing what wasn't broke.
Anyway, thanks for the info!
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that could work, but i just downloaded the LG Mobile Support that i found from a google search. im pretty sure it was just from lg's website
GOOD LUCK
was your phone off before you hit the vol up and home, then clicked power for three-five seconds?
CROSSFREEZE said:
that could work, but i just downloaded the LG Mobile Support that i found from a google search. im pretty sure it was just from lg's website
GOOD LUCK
was your phone off before you hit the vol up and home, then clicked power for three-five seconds?
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Such a late reply, sorry! I did nothing. Before you replied I flashed CM10.2 but never bothered to boot up my phone. Preparing to connect my phone to my comp, I couldn't start CWM so I figured " I'll just leave my phone plugged in for a few hours." Two hours later, my phone has a blank screen, i'm thinking "This shouldn't be blank? What the hell?." I pressed the power button and was greeted with Cid. I screamed out loud: "**** yeah!"
If people have the same problem as me all I did was: Reflash my my phone with 10.1, stock, 10.1 again, and then 10.2. I did that, only that.
What's funny is that I never checked to see if my phone was working after I flashed CM10.2. :silly:
Can't wait for Kit-Kat. Thank you for keeping up with my post, CROSSFREEZE I appreciate it!
Edit: I might submit a really specific and simplified version of the "Unlock Bootloader for Noobs P769" for the take of contributing.
surenzxx said:
Edit: I might submit a really specific and simplified version of the "Unlock Bootloader for Noobs P769" for the take of contributing.
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love that idea, theres al;ot of reading i skimmed it and watched the video and after skippiing half the steps it worked for me but there was alot of messed up stuff to fix

Please, help me.

I'm interested in running a custom Rom on my mpcs LG f6 (ms500). I'm a part timer at this, my understanding of code is devastatingly deficient.
I have a an l9 and another f6 that won't even turn on and I'm wondering where, even, to begin.
All are mpcs.
All three, including the one I'm writing this on presently, were/are rooted.
An update took out the non-working f6, and the l9 was my bad.
I'm now on a rooted f6 running battery booster pro, overclocked with freedom kernal, with roehsoft ram expander doubling my ram to 1608.
I realize my circumstances are all over the place, but, if anyone has the genuine benevolence to help me where they can; my gratitude will be unquantifiable.
findrome said:
I'm interested in running a custom Rom on my mpcs LG f6 (ms500). I'm a part timer at this, my understanding of code is devastatingly deficient.
I have a an l9 and another f6 that won't even turn on and I'm wondering where, even, to begin.
All are mpcs.
All three, including the one I'm writing this on presently, were/are rooted.
An update took out the non-working f6, and the l9 was my bad.
I'm now on a rooted f6 running battery booster pro, overclocked with freedom kernal, with roehsoft ram expander doubling my ram to 1608.
I realize my circumstances are all over the place, but, if anyone has the genuine benevolence to help me where they can; my gratitude will be unquantifiable.
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I'll give a shot at trying to help you with the L9 but I'm going to need some details about what happened. :/
Thank you AshIndigo
L9 rooted and running system tuner pro. I turned on the oem battery function, kernal, doo-hicky (highly technical terminology). The unit ceased recognizing the battery after reboot. It stated, at boot, to insert oem battery and will not take a charge.
I'm considering a wipe and a new bootlaoder with a custom Rom if possible, but I'll settle with just getting it working.
findrome said:
Thank you AshIndigo
L9 rooted and running system tuner pro. I turned on the oem battery function, kernal, doo-hicky (highly technical terminology). The unit ceased recognizing the battery after reboot. It stated, at boot, to insert oem battery and will not take a charge.
I'm considering a wipe and a new bootlaoder with a custom Rom if possible, but I'll settle with just getting it working.
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Thats a new one. But what modes can you get into. S/W, fastboot, recovery, the wipe combination? If you can get into s/w mode just use the lg mobile tool and that should fix it. Otherwise we may need to reflash the phone. and is your bootloader unlocked?
It doesn't power up in the slightest. And it won't charge.
Bootloader was not unlocked, I'm still trying to wrap my skull jelly around that. I'm thinking flash might be the best option, but I'd prefer to preserve the data (not likely if flashed). I've downloaded LG flash tool, but the manual data entry is a mystery, excluding imei and serial.
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Bootloader was not unlocked, I'm still trying to wrap my skull jelly around that. I'm thinking flash might be the best option, but I'd prefer to preserve the data (not likely if flashed). I've downloaded LG flash tool, but the manual data entry is a mystery, excluding imei and serial.
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Alright I'm presuming s/w mode doesnt work but if it does then that would be nice. Next thing is to try fastboot. Here is a link to a fastboot for the l9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2292828
If you manage to get into fastboot. We can reflash things. Truth to be told I dont know if we reflash we might have to wipe the device. :/
I've resolved myself to things being what they are.
What's s/w mode?
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Alright I'm presuming s/w mode doesnt work but if it does then that would be nice. Next thing is to try fastboot. Here is a link to a fastboot for the l9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2292828
If you manage to get into fastboot. We can reflash things. Truth to be told I dont know if we reflash we might have to wipe the device. :/
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Downloaded, followed instructions. Device booted once and quit while playing around with it, consistent with initial failure as I recall (if only vaguely), now on s/w update screen. Says please wait while upgrading.
Update:
Can enter s/w update. Now takes charge, will likely be 100% by the time you read this.
Lastly, can power on but powers off after entering screen unlock code.
Thank you again AshIndigo.
After some more dabbling, I've made it past the lock screen. The result is a message " please use genuine LG battery" before the unit shuts down and goes into what might might questionably be a bootloop. It's the system tuner pro app, set to start on start-up, that's the thorn in my side.
What are your orders captain?
findrome said:
After some more dabbling, I've made it past the lock screen. The result is a message " please use genuine LG battery" before the unit shuts down and goes into what might might questionably be a bootloop. It's the system tuner pro app, set to start on start-up, that's the thorn in my side.
What are your orders captain?
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Sorry for replying late but if you have adb enabled we can uninstall the app easily. This should be the command to remove it.
adb uninstall ccc71.pmw.pro
AshIndigo said:
Sorry for replying late but if you have adb enabled we can uninstall the app easily. This should be the command to remove it.
adb uninstall ccc71.pmw.pro
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No apologies needed, your time is greatly appreciated.
I ran the command, with what appears to be success. It seems though, the kernal remains intact.
A wipe seems imminent.
findrome said:
No apologies needed, your time is greatly appreciated.
I ran the command, with what appears to be success. It seems though, the kernal remains intact.
A wipe seems imminent.
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(I just deleted everything I wrote and have to write it again )
Ok so before we try to re-flash the kernel. Lets just try the lg mobile support tool. If that doesn't work then heres instructions
1. If you have the p760 then heres the stock kernel
http://www.mediafire.com/download/87i322233ev36k8/stock-kernel.zip
3. Download it
4. extract the boot.img from the zips and put it into the "yours" folder in the fastboot folder
5. Get into fastboot
6. Make sure the device is connected by typing "fastboot devices"
(It should look like this) http://cdn.teamandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/fastboot-devices-600x302.jpg
6a. Pray to Google
7. type "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
8. Pray again.
If you don't have the p760 then tell me which device you have so I can get the kernel
@ AshIndigo
P769BK
AshIndigo said:
(I just deleted everything I wrote and have to write it again )
6a. Pray to Google
8. Pray again.
If you don't have the p760 then tell me which device you have so I can get the kernel
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Golden, you missed your calling.
It's a P769(bk). Not that the color makes a difference. It's also a T-mo, not mpcs. If that matters.
findrome said:
Golden, you missed your calling.
It's a P769(bk). Not that the color makes a difference. It's also a T-mo, not mpcs. If that matters.
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I dont think I've missed it yet
Alright so there are 2 options right now.
1. You resign the kernel or wait for me to get on a windows computer so I can resign it.
2. You unlock your bootloader.
If you choose option 1 then and you want to try then here's the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/optimus-l9/general/guide-install-custom-roms-locked-t3249828
And here's the link to the kernel
http://d-h.st/pdM
1. Follow the manual instructions in the post except just do it for the boot.img and flash that instead.
"fastboot flash boot boot_bumped.img"
If you choose option 2 then here's a link with instructions. (My phone is perma-locked so I never got to try this)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601480 (Wish you luck if you try this)
If anything is unclear let me know.

Question May have bricked my phone...Bootloader randomly failed to flash...??

So I may have bricked my phone and need some serious help right now...
I was ready to flash October's monthly update. I had downloaded the factory image, and extracted everything from the factory image. I patched the magisk image and had it ready in the same directory. I edited the flash_all.bat script and removed the "-w" flag. I disabled all modules on magisk, and had got the phone to bootloader mode. I then ran the flash_all.bat script, and then for some reason the bootloader flashing failed. My phone now won't turn on and is a complete black screen. I need some major help here.
EDIT: My PC cannot see it on EITHER ADB or Fastboot devices
Can you boot manually into bootloader mode?
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tom1807 said:
Can you boot manually into bootloader mode?
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No I can't. Holding power and volume down gets me nothing.
Toronadian said:
No I can't. Holding power and volume down gets me nothing.
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How long are you holding it? I have found that it takes a *really long time* (like, a full minute) of holding that power button to get any response. But if still nothing, "black screen with no response" does sound like the "bad bootloader" brick. :x Might be fixable under warranty, I'm not sure.
.......I'm getting a feeling that I did the wrong device's bootloader and it failed. Now it's stuck....
Toronadian said:
So I may have bricked my phone and need some serious help right now...
I was ready to flash October's monthly update. I had downloaded the factory image, and extracted everything from the factory image. I patched the magisk image and had it ready in the same directory. I edited the flash_all.bat script and removed the "-w" flag. I disabled all modules on magisk, and had got the phone to bootloader mode. I then ran the flash_all.bat script, and then for some reason the bootloader flashing failed. My phone now won't turn on and is a complete black screen. I need some major help here.
EDIT: My PC cannot see it on EITHER ADB or Fastboot devices
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Did you have the A13 bootloader flashed to both slots before trying to update today?
Maybe try the phone support? Flash a rom to Sd card even?
Lughnasadh said:
Did you have the A13 bootloader flashed to both slots before trying to update today?
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Yes I did. OK...so I screwed up HARD and I think I might have did the Pixel 5's bootloader, or at least it tried. It just said failed and that was it. Now I'm just getting a black screen.
Both slots have the September 2022 A13 bootloader. I was on September 2022 update. Is there anyway to get to the other slot and at least get bootloader from there??
Toronadian said:
Yes I did. OK...so I screwed up HARD and I think I might have did the Pixel 5's bootloader, or at least it tried. It just said failed and that was it. Now I'm just getting a black screen.
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Have you tried to see if Android Flash Tool will recognize your phone?
Lughnasadh said:
Have you tried to see if Android Flash Tool will recognize your phone?
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Yep, doesn't recognize it.
Toronadian said:
Yep, doesn't recognize it.
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May want to try to RMA it. Can't think of anything else. Sounds like it's pretty dead if it's not turning on and not recognizing anything.
What hurts hard is that I've taken exceptional care of this, like battery was still at 100%. Ugghh. Traded in my 4a 5G for this at launch.
Unfortunately , if you flash bootloader from another model.. you're f***d...
RMA only option
cultofluna said:
Unfortunately , if you flash bootloader from another model.. you're f***d...
RMA only option
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Except ur not...
Toronadian said:
What hurts hard is that I've taken exceptional care of this, like battery was still at 100%. Ugghh. Traded in my 4a 5G for this at launch.
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Well if you're willing I'm trying to start a small team for testing existing methods to unbricking.
I've come to the conclusion that all you need to talk to the phone is a USB c to 2.0 cable then hold vol up/dwn. This exposes the bootROM output and messages from the phone in serial output on COMM5, and if you're on Unix then it's on ttyACM0. Interestingly enough it's in Exynos downloading mode. The computer gives us the USB descriptor and a bulk in and bulk out endpoint.
I believe Exynos uses Syn/Ack/Dwn/Up
So an update, I took it today to a UBreakIFix location since here in Canada they're an authorized repair place. I fortunately still had 2 weeks warranty on it (of a year) so the repair is supposedly covered (they emailed Google and got authorization on it). After doing the diagnosis, they said the issue is with the motherboard or something (I'm assuming it flashed the wrong thing and bricked) so they had to replace it. They have the part in stock so I'm getting the phone back tomorrow. Hoping this gets everything back in place and repair holds up. Nothing was wrong with it otherwise, just hope their repair handiwork is good and all the pieces are placed correctly. I did lose all my data and messages though as I had been choosing not to save a number of things to my Google account (I had it on pause) so it will take quite a bit of time to just get it back to the way I like it. Also hoping that they don't then also prevent the bootloader from being unlocked, which I've read has happened after Google RMA's your device.
Thank you everyone. And @NonStickAtom785 , hope for all the best in your testing into unbricking methods and look forward to having you share your findings, in case for whatever reason others or hopefully NOT me runs into that situation.

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