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[RECOVERY] ClockworkMod Recovery for G2

Installation instructions:
YOUR PHONE MUST ALREADY BE S-OFF. SEE THE OTHER THREADS IN THIS FORUM ON HOW TO DO THAT.
I recommend getting on Wi-Fi.
Download ROM Manager from the Market. You MUST have at least 2.5.0.6.
Flash Recovery.
Choose G2 as your phone.
Accept the Superuser prompt.
Use ROM Manager to create a Backup.
Watch the backup go!
That's it! This is completely painless and safe!
If you appreciate my work, please buy the Premium version of ROM Manager!
If you can't seem to get ROM Manager off the market, you can get it from my homepage:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html
http://koush.tandtgaming.com//recoveries/RomManager.apk
Or to manually install the recovery via fastboot, use this:
http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img

Great work!! Would this happen to work on the Desire Z as well?

Got the premium key off the market, but it doesnt list g2 in device selection
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Dalamak said:
Got the premium key off the market, but it doesnt list g2 in device selection
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I'm not seeing the G2 as an option, either
EDIT: I enabled "Advanced Mode" in settings and rebooted, G2 now shows up. Thanks, Koush!

Get on wifi if you don't see it.

Purchased, keep up the good work.

instructions for fastboot method?

I keep getting an error message "can't open cache\recovery\command" upon reboot when I try to create a backup. Any ideas?

John5788 said:
instructions for fastboot method?
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fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img

Same problem as yayitzben... Any suggestions?
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How can I backup my current rom?
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usunoro said:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
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I tried that after rebooting into fastboot mode, but it gets stuck at:
Code:
$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-vision.img
sending 'recovery' (4040 KB)...
for over a minute. i dont remember it taking this long on the G1 to flash recovery

Any reason selecting reboot in the recovery causes it to just black screen, and then pushing power button returns it to the recovery?

Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?

funkeee said:
Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?
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hold vol up and power button at the same time. then using the volume bar to go to reboot... and press the power button.

~~Tito~~ said:
Any reason selecting reboot in the recovery causes it to just black screen, and then pushing power button returns it to the recovery?
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Be sure to use the trackpad (button below the screen) and not the power button for "select". Power button is "back".
funkeee said:
Oh my God!!!! I followed your instructions and clicked backup current ROM and it rebooted and now I have a red triangle. What do I do?
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This happened to me (and a few others in the other thread). Pull the battery, restart, reflash recovery (via rom manager), fix permissions (via rom manger, might not be needed), start a new backup. Should work.
(Thanks temjinzero for this method)
Thanks Koush for an awesome job!

If your phone restarts while in Clockwork after flashing and gives you a screen with a red triangle, do not panic and start using it as a paperweight immediately.
Pull the battery, reboot and reflash Clockwork.
I wasn't able to boot again for a few minutes after the battery pull. The power button did not have any effect. Not fastboot nor regular boot. After 2-3 minutes of pain, utter pain, I was able to get into fastboot, then reboot like normal.
Thank you to Koush, cyprusxr3 and mdel.

If you do not see g2 liste go to settings/applications/manage downloaded/rommanager and push clear cache clear data bam fixed

Purchased. And thanks for all the hard work
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Ahh the touch pad, from what I was hearing, it wasn't working lol.
Just installed beacon bits lol.

[bootloader][05-26] FFF 1.4A bugfixes + new look + recovery boot [.zip file size]

NEW BOOTLOADER INSTALL METHOD: FLASH.ZIP. SAFER. USE IN RECOVERY JUST LIKE ANY OTHER ROM .ZIP
This is an UPDATED version of FIREFIREFIRE by Pokey9000
CREDITS and THANKS GO TO:
- Pokey9000: For getting this going. Hard to dev at all w/o a way of getting to recovery.
- eldarerathis: Menu code was used from the Extended FIREFIREFIRE github
- Icemank121: All splash/menu screens
Version 1.5 of FIREFIREFIRE changes:
[1.5] Better handling for lower power / charging screen
[1.4a] Reprioritized the different boot options so that regardless of idme bootmode, the options chosen from the menu would be used first.
[1.4] Support for a single boot directly to Recovery for applying ROM updates, etc via "Reboot Recovery" menu in Android. Works with any recovery that is installed. All existing ROM devs need to update their BoardConfig.mk to support this by adding the following:
TARGET_RECOVERY_PRE_COMMAND := "idme postmode 1;"
Your builds will need to also have a working "idme" binary and the "libidme.so" lib for the reboot recovery option to work.
Both of these are in the prebuilts of the device tree on github:
https://github.com/KFire-Android/android_device_amazon_otter/tree/cm-11.0/prebuilt
Fixed Charging Mode which will pause the boot process and let the device charge if the current capacity is under 3%. If you connect it to the stock charger, the boot can proceed.[/B]
Added a Boot Menu which is accessed by pressing the power button after a the initial splash screen is displayed. You then press the menu button again to navigate through each option. If you wait after an option is highlighted, it will automatically be selected after a few seconds.:
Normal: Standard boot into your installed ROM
Recovery: Boot to recovery
Reset Boot Mode: This is a normal bootup but resets "idme bootmode" to 4000 for those that are stuck and can't access idme for whatever reason.
NOTES:
Currently the handling of the power button is a bit sloppy, takes 1-2 presses for it to register each press to navigate through the menu.
Download the recovery-flashable .zip file here:
http://goo.im/devs/hashcode/otter/bootloader/flash-zip
v1.5 md5sum: 4e9d277a31a2a26d33156edf5abbf0e4
v1.4a md5sum: 419c53b922c963082454b14b7de75a90
Apply this flash.zip from recovery just like any other ROM or kernel .zip file. This is by far the safest way to upgrade your bootloader. It does a sha1sum check on the file before applying.
GitHub source (forked from Pokey9000's original) here:
https://github.com/KFire-Android/kf_u-boot

Top notch, Hash! When I saw your name by this, I knew it was going to be something good. Thank you for this.

Reserved
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Thanks Hashcode
Really Nice update, it should avoid some people like me ever getting stuck in fastboot, something I did not understood reading the OP.
Suggestion: in a future version, could you make a count down decreasing the selecting marks "--"?
Since it can easily take you out of fastboot, ROM makes could also add reboot to "bootloader".

Thank you Hashcode for your support and for try to make the Kindle Fire the best device out there.

Can I use the script to flash this
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Sweet!
Looks really good. Great work.

jamminjon82 said:
Can I use the script to flash this
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Yes just rename the file

What file do we replace it with. Thanks
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soberarmy said:
What file do we replace it with. Thanks
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I replaced uboot one. Don't forget to change script to match new path
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Great Update!

Works perfectly! Thank you for the update

Can I just flash this using TWRP like I would a ROM?

bbc0 said:
Can I just flash this using TWRP like I would a ROM?
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No, it's not a zip.

is anyone else having trouble trying to download the file?

Unbelievable! You're making great, amazing things, Hashcode.
Ps. Requesting mirror, as your site seems down.

Wow this does look very nice. Just a few questions... the "fastboot oem format" option still in place and will there be any support for dual booting (referring to the other thread with the bootloader that supports that sort of thing) in the future?

Yep, rombot seems to be having issues. I'll get a mirror up in a sec.
Re dual boot support: I'm sure that given a bit of time they will integrate at least the bug fixes (and hopefully the reboot support)
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awesome update hash. I like the selection on button press. very very cool.
question, I'm curious how helpful that reset boootmode feature is, when u reboot from recovery using twrp2.1.1 it properly sets the bootmode back before rebooting? unless that selection is access able when booting in fast boot?
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smirkis said:
awesome update hash. I like the selection on button press. very very cool.
question, I'm curious how helpful that reset boootmode feature is, when u reboot from recovery using twrp2.1.1 it properly sets the bootmode back before rebooting? unless that selection is access able when booting in fast boot?
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That option is available at anytime (even in fastboot mode)
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[Q] How do I get SU back? I broke it...

After flashing a JB rom and a corresponding JB Super SU zip this morning, I accidentally uninstalled the Super SU thinking I had a different SU app already. Turns out I didn't, and now I don't know how to get it back. I flashed the SU zip again in recovery, didn't work. But now nothing requiring root access works, so I can't even get back into recovery as far as I can tell. What do I do to get root back?
UPDATE: No matter what kind of weird things you may have done to your GNex, if you happened to have screwed up your SU abilities somehow, these next few posts will most likely help to guide you. I screwed mine all up to hell, and these guys helped me remember what was going on and what to do to fix it.
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Reflash the ROM.
Try getting into fastboot, through the volume and power keys when the device is shutdown.
Happened to me before, that was the only solution.

you can download the superuser app from the market

simms22 said:
you can download the superuser app from the market
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Duh. That was easily the dumbest thing I've done this week. Funny the things we forget to be easy if we hardly ever do them.
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I DID IT AGAIN!!
I didn't learn my lesson, and kept screwing around with the super user apps, and I ended up removing the super user binary. (what is wrong with me?) So this is a little more serious... Now what do I do?
I'm not a noob rooter (rooted my OG Droid 2 years ago and kept up with development, now the same with my GNex) but I guess I somehow got around having to deal with SU issues the whole time.

neccoguy21 said:
I didn't learn my lesson, and kept screwing around with the super user apps, and I ended up removing the super user binary. (what is wrong with me?) So this is a little more serious... Now what do I do?
I'm not a noob rooter (rooted my OG Droid 2 years ago and kept up with development, now the same with my GNex) but I guess I somehow got around having to deal with SU issues the whole time.
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Do you have CWM installed? If so, just flash this in recovery.

efrant said:
Do you have CWM installed? If so, just flash this in recovery.
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That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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neccoguy21 said:
That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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power off the phone
hold volume UP and DOWN and POWER buttons all at the same time
you will boot into fastboot mode
from there you can scroll up and down using the volume buttons and select an option using the power button
select recovery press the power button this will get you into recovery
flash supersu in recovery
bob's your uncle

neccoguy21 said:
That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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if you can get to the bootloader, scroll using the volume keys to get to 'recovery mode' and select that. that is recovery and you should hopefully have CWM or TWRP still installed.
bah... blowtorch is faster

neccoguy21 said:
That's all I use, but I can't get to recovery. I'm running stock JB rom, so there's no option to reboot into recovery from the power menu, and since I don't have super user, no app can get the permission to reboot into recovery either. I can power down and boot into the bootloader (or whatever that is) holding the volume down and power buttons, but I don't see how that helps.
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Once your at the bootloader, you should have the choice to boot from there into recovery, though it's been a while since I've done it that way so cannot give you the exact steps. You should be able to use the volume keys to highlight the recovery option and then press the power button to choose it, I believe.
But you may have lost CWM, since JB could have over-written it. If so, you'll need to use fastboot to re-install it, after which you can use CWM to apply an SU zip from your internal SD card.

Thank you blowtorch, Zepius, and high vista! It was having both vol buttons pressed that I had completely forgotten about. That solves the problem and dams up a flood of questions that could have been had I not gotten that minor detail in.

boot recovery clockworkmod

how to boot clockworkmod to restore back system.. i have stuck on logo???

Press volume down + power button and hold the volume down until it goes to bootloader and from there choose recovery
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shiwa2 said:
Press volume down + power button and hold the volume down until it goes to bootloader and from there choose recovery
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not work .. can you give me a screenshot.. i have try many time but cannot enter cwm recovery.. please?????

can you boot into hboot?
with phone powered off, hold volume down and hit power
if it goes to the htc splash screen you have bigger issues
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demkantor said:
can you boot into hboot?
with phone powered off, hold volume down and hit power
if it goes to the htc splash screen you have bigger issues
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yeah.. i have try . but splash htc logo and stuck . there is another way???

log onto freenode and you will get realtime help, without hboot you may have very little luck getting your phone working again
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paradoxgogo said:
yeah.. i have try . but splash htc logo and stuck . there is another way???
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Do you know what version of CWM you're running? There were a few versions that hung on the 'htc' screen and would take a few reboots to fully boot.
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If you can get into hboot , or able to see 'adb devices' show your device you may be able to type:
adb reboot recovery
and cause it to reboot into recovery from your terminal if you are finding difficulties with using the button method.
The splash is sometimes indicative that you don't have a rom installed at all (i.e.: if you did a clean wipe and such), but worse case scenario, you don't have recovery installed either in which case you may have to install it via fastboot (at the bootloader screen)

kbeezie said:
If you can get into hboot , or able to see 'adb devices' show your device you may be able to type:
adb reboot recovery
and cause it to reboot into recovery from your terminal if you are finding difficulties with using the button method.
The splash is sometimes indicative that you don't have a rom installed at all (i.e.: if you did a clean wipe and such), but worse case scenario, you don't have recovery installed either in which case you may have to install it via fastboot (at the bootloader screen)
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can you give any link to do that or something else.. i really need it. im newbie dont know anything

and i use android speeddaemon fantasia rom..

adb (android debugging bridge)is an executable program for a pc (or linux or apple) to communicate with your android phone. it is unlikely adb will work if you cant even access your hboot but you can try.
if you rooted your phone yourself than you should have the drivers installed and adb.exe also installed on computer, along with knowledge on how to use it.
if you didnt/dont have it, google android sdk for the package, and google adb for dummies (or something like that) for more instructions if the sdk doesnt provide you with enough.
but like i said it is unlikely to work and if you want any chance of fixing your phone i suggest logging onto freenode to get real time help

anyway thanks.. i have resolved my problem with battery pull first and then press vol down + power button

paradoxgogo said:
anyway thanks.. i have resolved my problem with battery pull first and then press vol down + power button
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If that was your fix, you most likely have the buggy CWM version. Update your CWM recovery to the latest version or flash 4ext recovery (which I've never heard of hanging like that)
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[Q] Help me!!!!

Ok unfortunately I decided to root my LG and obviously thats was my first mistake. I was reading xda about how to root my LG Optimus G. Well i found a thread that talked me through it but I decided to take the short and download freegee from the playstore. And needless to say in the middle of it backing up someone decided they felt the need to call me. I didnt answer the call but it went back to downloading the recovery. When it finished it said it couldnt find the files. Long story short my phone worked for 2 days before it decided that it was gonna be deactivated and i no longer use my phone unless its on wifi. I talked to sprint the tech told that basically everything is gone and the biggest part thats missing is the radio and if i could recovery that or flash a new one then I have buy a new phone. Can anyone please please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

do you still have recovery installed? try flashing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176186&highlight=radio

javskies said:
do you still have recovery installed? try flashing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176186&highlight=radio
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How do I know if I have a recovery installed??

juliepana said:
How do I know if I have a recovery installed??
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Put ya phone in fast boot mode then push volume down twice then push power button and it should take u to which ever recovery u have installed ..
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Put ya phone in fast boot mode then push volume down twice then push power button and it should take u to which ever recovery u have installed ..
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i tried power/vol up lg logo pops as if turning on,then looks like it turns off. what does that mean? i can android system recovery by power/vol dn. is that the same thing your talking about?

juliepana said:
i tried power/vol up lg logo pops as if turning on,then looks like it turns off. what does that mean? i can android system recovery by power/vol dn. is that the same thing your talking about?
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It sounds like you still have stock recovery. You'll need to use LGNPST. All the info and links are here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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engine95 said:
It sounds like you still have stock recovery. You'll need to use LGNPST. All the info and links are here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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Agreed just lgnpst and start back from beginning ....I think u may have corrupted ya efs ... If ya phone only works on WiFi try to re activate it .... If it fails to activate then u will most likely need to visit the efs repair /recover thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
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i am going to follow everything to a t and i will be getting back to everyone. If i do or if i don't succeed either way i owe you all a few cases of beer. Thank you all and i will let you know again thank you for all your time.

juliepana said:
i am going to follow everything to a t and i will be getting back to everyone. If i do or if i don't succeed either way i owe you all a few cases of beer. Thank you all and i will let you know again thank you for all your time.
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ok
1.i did the lgnpst_ls970.dll and the ls970 stock bin. 67% phone turned on still no service tried the fastboot. still no fast boot.
2. according lgnpst thread no fastboot try with alt bin. teenybin ls970 (alt bin)
3. at 67% phone attempted to turn on and a google logo appeared the shut down. about 85% a window opened and said the phone must have disconnected or became unplugged. then the instructed window closed . now a batt charging logo appears but not the same image as the original.

ok update!!!
So no i have a green screen that says AP Watchdog bark detected!
DemiGod Crash Handler
Choose Dload Mode/Reboot/Fastboot
Vol. up: Dload Mode
Vol. down: Reboot
Power: Fastboot
If I choose Dload Mode pls do following
1 . Dload Mode. Pls connect USB
2. Get tha ram dump image using QCT's memory debug app
3. Send email to contact point or [email protected]

Which bin file did you use? Zv9? Or ZVB? The demigod thing is nothing. Just reboot. If you can get into recovery, do a factory reset. You might lose everything tho.
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engine95 said:
Which bin file did you use? Zv9? Or ZVB? The demigod thing is nothing. Just reboot. If you can get into recovery, do a factory reset. You might lose everything tho.
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I think it was the Zv9 bin file. I just tried pressing the vol. down to reboot but instead it decided that vol. up was pressed and it jumped to Dload Mode. How do i get out of it or stop it.

juliepana said:
I think it was the Zv9 bin file. I just tried pressing the vol. down to reboot but instead it decided that vol. up was pressed and it jumped to Dload Mode. How do i get out of it or stop it.
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ok so i was able out of Dload Mode but now my phone is still doing what was before.

juliepana said:
ok so i was able out of Dload Mode but now my phone is still doing what was before.
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Press and hold the power button for 20+sec. Next press vol down+power until the capacitive lights come on then release them. That should bring up stock recovery. Do a factory reset. You'll use the capacitive menu key to select.
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engine95 said:
Press and hold the power button for 20+sec. Next press vol down+power until the capacitive lights come on then release them. That should bring up stock recovery. Do a factory reset. You'll use the capacitive menu key to select.
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ok so nothing happened when I pressed power and vol. down but when i pressed power and vol. up it took me to fastboot. the options i have are start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. Which should I do. I guess I cant get into stock recovery mode

juliepana said:
ok so nothing happened when I pressed power and vol. down but when i pressed power and vol. up it took me to fastboot. the options i have are start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. Which should I do. I guess I cant get into stock recovery mode
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Go to recovery. Still do the factory reset. Are you sure you used zv9? If that doesn't work, in the teeny bin thread download the original one. If you can also put a ROM on your SD and flash it.
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engine95 said:
Go to recovery. Still do the factory reset. Are you sure you used zv9? If that doesn't work, in the teeny bin thread download the original one. If you can also put a ROM on your SD and flash it.
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Honestly I really dont know. Maybe I did use ZVB. Let me just make sure im doing this right. From fastboot im goona go into recovery mode and factory rest, right? And where can I find a ROM and how would i get it flashed on my SD? Im sorry Ive never done this before. I think thats obvious, but thanks for your help and everyone else help.

no what do i do after a factory reset?

juliepana said:
no what do i do after a factory reset?
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OK. Let's start from scratch. Shall we?
Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Install LGNPST and download either ZV9 or ZVB bin. And run it.
This should get you up and running. It includes the modem also.
Edit. Zvb is the most current. But we can make either bin work.
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engine95 said:
OK. Let's start from scratch. Shall we?
Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Install LGNPST and download either ZV9 or ZVB bin. And run it.
This should get you up and running. It includes the modem also.
Edit. Zvb is the most current. But we can make either bin work.
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Ok now that make my phone able to make calls and send texts and have data 3g/4g. Cuz after i tried rooting the phone the phone lost service and in settings under phone info everything but the ICCID is all 000000's. So does this change things.