I would greatly appreciate any help!
Two days ago my phone was having problems updating themes. I was rooted with
Clockwork 2.5.05 for the longest time but when the update for 2.5.1 was pushed I didn't think twice and I updated. Now I couldn't restore or flash because recovery would hang at MD5 Sums. After two days of nonstop attempts and fails I decided I would just backup everything on my computer and unroot, then reroot fresh.
So I unrooted my phone and thought everything would be fine. Nope, my phone was reset back to 2.1update1. Now Unrevoked wasn't working when I tried to root.
Now I found this page
http://androidforums.com/incredible...root-your-incredible-whatever-its-status.html
and followed and did step 2. That installed succesfully, but now I couldn't find a working to the May update. Luckily I found a link on the forums here and was able to install.
This may be where I went wrong but I accidentally flashed step 5 before step 4. But either way both step 4 and 5 installed without a hitch.
Now step 6 wouldn't work. It would error out at Update 7 or something along those lines.
Now I'm stuck with a phone with the Unrevoked splash screen(I like it, I just can't take it in to a verizon store and get a new phone under warranty because clearly I was messing with it), I think 2.2, and I can't put it into USB mode though my computer recognizes it under Device Manager. It hangs whenever I try to pull down the status bar.
On top of that I can't access any wireless network, both wifi and verizons, and
i can't get passed the activation screen because of that.
Reseting from the bootloader doesn't fix it, factory reseting from recovery doesn't fix it(Verizons built in recovery, step 5 uninstalled clockwork).
I am very lost
I think I unwillingly traded one of my nine lives to the devil.
My phone, has been fixed.
By a complete blunder, or at least I think so, my phone has been corrected.
I got tired of the constant reboots and "System crashes" that would ail me before I even got to the Phone Activation screen I thought I would try and activate it even though I had a X where the reception bars are.
To my absolute astonishment after a minute or two pause my phone is dialed through and begins the *228 update!(Later today at work my friend suggested that the 228 number works like an emergency number and dials on whatever network is available.)
My phone reboots and I have access to the home screen! I still can't pull down the status bar and have X bars but this is better than nothing! Feeling headstrong I open up Revoked and try rooting
It works!...sort of
It goes through the full process and when I get to the home screen I'm on a stock 2.2 device! Oddly no root however
I boot to clockwork and install su-2.3.4-ef and payload-update.
And now it works somehow! S-on is back as well. I just got back from work and have successfully rooted! I really hope this is a Karma cash in
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My phone has been rooted pretty much since the first week of release. I used Toastcf's method (step 1) of rooting my wife's phone, but never did the NAND unlock root, and she was fine with that for a while.
Recently, she's been having short batter time issues and problems with the phone restarting for no reason, so she asked me to root it and put a new ROM on.
I did some searching and it looked like Unleash the Beast was the best tool for rooting her phone in the shortest time possible, so I downloaded the zip file and loaded Amon's recovery to install it.
Unfortunately, when I went into Recovery mode, the phone restarted and now all I get is the little phone icon with the triangle/! and even when I restart the phone, this is all I get! I've pulled the battery, tried starting it up in recovery, etc. but nothing seems to work.
Did I just brick my wife's Evo?
Update 1: I played around with the volume buttons and somehow the recovery listing came up. I selected install update from sdcard, but it errored out and wouldn't install the Unleash the Beast update.zip.
I rebooted the phone instead and now I'm back up and running, but still not sure what the best way to root this thing completely would be. Any help would be very much appreciated!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776477
Euphoricsoul said:
Update 1: I played around with the volume buttons and somehow the recovery listing came up. I selected install update from sdcard, but it errored out and wouldn't install the Unleash the Beast update.zip.
I rebooted the phone instead and now I'm back up and running, but still not sure what the best way to root this thing completely would be. Any help would be very much appreciated!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776477
unrEVOked
First of i'd like to thank the community! I've ran in to numerous issues and have been graciously saved several times.
I'll start of by providing some context in to the issue.
original configuration:
Unlocked - T-Mobile US SIM
AT&T LG E980 factory tot 4.1.2 - flashed using LG Flashing Tool
Root - E980 Universal Root
Unlocked Bootloader - Freegee [Android Marketplace]
Installed Recovery TWRP v2.6 - Freegee [Android Marketplace]
Removed bloatware - AT&T Applications
So from this point the phone was working as expected. I spent hours configuring to my liking and decided to call it a night. Before I called it quits I decided to make a backup using TWRP. Backup took a really long time but it said successful. I left handset plugged in to charger overnight, roughly 6 hours of continuous charging. When I woke up I noticed the phone was in recovery mode. Touchscreen was also unresponsive. I held the power button to allow it to reboot and it rebooted me back to recovery. At this point I knew something was wrong. I attempted to re-install backup files made from previous night, this failed. The phone booted back to recovery. I then installing some zip files I had pre-loaded on to the external SD card, this was CM10.1 and gapps files for E980. I tried this out a few days ago and it was working fine. I decided lets try installing this and see what happens. Install was successful and rebooted. The phone boots back in to recovery. At this point I'm really frustrated. I checked the memory card by running through the TWRP menu. I noticed the file sizes were unchanged but the files were not displayed on both in/ext memory. I decided to finally restore again by using LG Flashing Tool. This by the way has saved my a$$ numerous times. So the one thing I would note, at the 85% when the phone reboots I noticed there was an error, an error I've never seen before. It was a picture of sync icon (large) and android man on top of it and text that said "error 0x123456" I didn't note the exact string. I let it go and monitored the flashing tool, somewhere around 93-95% it rebooted again in to the normal boot sequence. Viola my phone is back to where I started.
So here's some of the questions I had:
How did I end up in the TWRP Recovery boot loop?
Why could I not see the files to install once in TWRP?
Why did TWRP continuously boot back in to recovery mode after successful install of restore?
Why did TWRP continuously boot back in to recovery mode after successful install of CM10.1/gapps zip?
Has anyone seen the LG Flashing Tool error I described above and does anyone have an explanation as to what happened?
Here's my theory on what happened...
My phone was on 4.1.2 as mentioned. I noticed a few times that there was a notification stating the phone had a OTA software update available. The first time I tried to update (already rooted and unlocked) the phone failed to update. The error cited that my phone was believed to be rooted. I paid no attention to this and decided to continue using. Later in the day I noticed the notification again, I opted to try again. The phone updated, or at least tried to. It kept booting in to TWRP Recovery. Nothing I could do could restore it, except flashing using the LG Tool. After experiencing this I knew to leave the OTA alone. I don't know if this is possible but somehow I think the OTA was pushed and forced through while I was sleeping allowing the phone to charge. This is the only time I've seen that behavior. Is that even possible???
Where am I now...?
Phone is restored, I opted to upgrade using the OTA before I start tinkering again. Maybe I won't mess with it at all and leave it alone at this point.
OK, I seem to be having a hell of an issue with my note 2. I rooted it about a week ago and installed TWRP, a couple days ago I decided to try a new rom. It booted up and everything seed fine except that I would keep getting some type of out of service error, so I decided to try a different rom, SwampMonster. I installed it though the TWRP (obviously) and it was successful, at least so TWRP said anyways. So Upon first boot it seemed to be booting fine with the Orange circle and after about 20 seconds it stops and the screen went black. As I have seen this plenty of times before I let it sit for over five minutes. Also when the Orange circle disappeared the computer beeped to indicate that it had been disconnected. Now I can only get into recovery and kies will not connect. I also cannot access TWRP.. can anyone give my a bit of advice. I was thinking of using a rom that I can install with oden but I can only find zip file based roms. Thanks in advance. Oh also, ODIN does make a connection
Where to start...
First, as a disclaimer, I may use language or terms that sound noobish. I have rooted and run custom ROMs on several devices in the past, however generally when I get a ROM I like I stick with it, so I'm not constantly tinkering. I've done my best to search and find solutions so please go easy on me.
17 days ago I was running stock 4.3 on my SGNII when the battery died. Upon charging I found I was stuck in bootloop and had a bad /efs mount. I searched and searched and spent around 15 hours trying this and that but to no avail. I finally threw my hands in the air and got ahold of Josh at mobiletechvideos and he was able to fix the efs mount issue. However, he left me in factory mode which required me to root to get out of, and once I did this I was unable to activate data on my carrier (Ting). I was so happy to have my phone "back" though that I used it like this for 4 or 5 days. I could get on wifi and I could call and send text messages. I had been off the grid so this felt like something I'd fix fully later.
Well I kept reading and found "fix" after "fix", flashed this and that and still no dice. FINALLY, last night, I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2086769 which helped immensely. I was able to get TWRP flashed by unchecking the "auto-reboot" option in Odin and pulling the battery after the update took, and via TWRP I was able to install the ROM. I booted up, the device activated, I was running 4.1.2, I made and received some calls, the birds were chirping, the air was sweet...
I had struggled for so long and I had finally achieved success! Then, for seemingly no reason at all, I accepted an OTA update which bricked my Note2. Devastation.
The current state of things...
* Cannot get past the initial "Samsung Galaxy Note 2" screen
* Cannot boot into recovery
* I CAN get into dl mode,
* but, I CANNOT successfully flash anything. TWRP will flash like it took, but upon reboot I'm not able to boot into it. I'm also able to flash a ROM but it fails when it gets to sbin, and upon rebooting I'm greeted by the screen "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
When I try to use Kies it doesn't find the device. I've installed all of the most recent drivers and I'm running Kies as administrator. I select Tools > Emergency Firmware Recovery, THEN connect my device as instructed.
I'm at the apex of frustration. I beg thee to help!!
I have roughly the same situation. Was rooted and on an MK4 rom, battery ran down super fast yesterday and when charged, only get splash screen and slowly flashing blue light. I can get into Philz recovery but no matter what I try, no dice. Also can get into DL mode, but haven't been able to get anywhere. What the heck happened?
Well i bought another phone because of this problem of unknown baseband and 0 for everything in settings which didnt allow me to connect to sprint. Now when that happen it put me in safe mode . and i couldn't find a fix for months i ended up getting a lg g2 and let my note 2 collect dust. Well I'm using my note 2 and its up in running . my partition was messed up . if you have this issue which it sound like i can help. My phone was running fine then rebooted on its own and rebooted on safe mode with no signal
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I'm stuck and confused:
Had a Nexus 4 and 5 for years. Decided to upgrade this past November to the LG G4 (T-Mobile H811)
Got it to root without touching the boot loader.
In came MM and then I had issues of repeating the process.
I came across a solution, to unlock my bootloader. So I did it and managed to get my G4 rooted while running stock LG MM (H81120i).
Everything was running well for several months, but then I started to see erratic behavior. It would heat-up in my pocket for no reason. It would not save pictures. Connections via WiFi and LTE were breaking up. All in all, I wasn't happy and I missed the stock Google interface.
So I've decided to install CM13. Had many issues of getting it to work for several days, which included persistent closings of Google Play services (and many others) and not being able to make/receive calls (it would automatically reboot) After several different attempts, I managed to get it all working. Cleared/Wiped everything off my internal drive, installed the "LG-H81120i-Flashable.COMPLETE" and "cm-13.0-201605xx-NIGHTLY-h811" and "open_gapps-arm64-6.0-nano-201605xx", all back to back. And then installed manual everything as needed Gmail, Maps, etc.
Everything worked great for about 2-days, until then next morning my screen locked up. Then the phone rebooted. After the reboot, it lasted for about 10-15 seconds in CM13 and rebooted again manually. Continued to reboot over and over, till it then stopped booting with CM13. I thought that maybe I needed to install the latest CM13 zip file, but found I couldn't get into recovery. The first reboot screen, showing "Bootloader State: Bootloader unlocked? and the LG logo would be in a loop. During that time, I could feel the phone getting hotter and hotter.
Sometimes, the phone would boot up into CM fully and last for 5 to 10 minutes. Then reboot again and stay in the first reboot screen.
I managed to get into TWRP recovery and thought that putting back the stock MRA58K image would help. During the install in recovery, the phone rebooted! I never thought it could do that. Eventually I got the stock LG back-up up and running, but it didn’t help, and same rebooting occurred.
I'm stuck and out of options. I would like to get the phone BACK TO STOCK and then perform an RMA. I’m afraid that with the BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED that my RMA will be denied and I’m stuck with what I have.
So can the H811's bootloader be re-locked?
PiCASSiMO said:
I'm stuck and confused:
Had a Nexus 4 and 5 for years. Decided to upgrade this past November to the LG G4 (T-Mobile H811)
Got it to root without touching the boot loader.
In came MM and then I had issues of repeating the process.
I came across a solution, to unlock my bootloader. So I did it and managed to get my G4 rooted while running stock LG MM (H81120i).
Everything was running well for several months, but then I started to see erratic behavior. It would heat-up in my pocket for no reason. It would not save pictures. Connections via WiFi and LTE were breaking up. All in all, I wasn't happy and I missed the stock Google interface.
So I've decided to install CM13. Had many issues of getting it to work for several days, which included persistent closings of Google Play services (and many others) and not being able to make/receive calls (it would automatically reboot) After several different attempts, I managed to get it all working. Cleared/Wiped everything off my internal drive, installed the "LG-H81120i-Flashable.COMPLETE" and "cm-13.0-201605xx-NIGHTLY-h811" and "open_gapps-arm64-6.0-nano-201605xx", all back to back. And then installed manual everything as needed Gmail, Maps, etc.
Everything worked great for about 2-days, until then next morning my screen locked up. Then the phone rebooted. After the reboot, it lasted for about 10-15 seconds in CM13 and rebooted again manually. Continued to reboot over and over, till it then stopped booting with CM13. I thought that maybe I needed to install the latest CM13 zip file, but found I couldn't get into recovery. The first reboot screen, showing "Bootloader State: Bootloader unlocked? and the LG logo would be in a loop. During that time, I could feel the phone getting hotter and hotter.
Sometimes, the phone would boot up into CM fully and last for 5 to 10 minutes. Then reboot again and stay in the first reboot screen.
I managed to get into TWRP recovery and thought that putting back the stock MRA58K image would help. During the install in recovery, the phone rebooted! I never thought it could do that. Eventually I got the stock LG back-up up and running, but it didn’t help, and same rebooting occurred.
I'm stuck and out of options. I would like to get the phone BACK TO STOCK and then perform an RMA. I’m afraid that with the BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED that my RMA will be denied and I’m stuck with what I have.
So can the H811's bootloader be re-locked?
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Since you live in the US your only option is to apply over voltage to the battery terminal and burn the mobo so that it wont even boot up. The exact method is somewhere around here in xda so you should look it up since you have no other choice
Edit: To answer your question: No
sirsomething said:
Since you live in the US your only option is to apply over voltage to the battery terminal and burn the mobo so that it wont even boot up. The exact method is somewhere around here in xda so you should look it up since you have no other choice
Edit: To answer your question: No
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If I can't re-lock the bootloader, has anyone had the success of returning their phones under warranty? Through T-Mobile?