Warning to all nitro users - LG Nitro HD

There is a guide out there. A horribly wrong guide. A guide that will permanently hard brick your P930 with NO CHANCE of ever getting it back. EVER. This guide is located at http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-nitro-hd-clockworkmod-cwm-recovery-48447/ and you MUST AVOID IT. This guide is also the first one that shows up when you search "Install Clockworkmod Recovery on LG Nitro HD". A word of warning to fellow users, DON'T FOLLOW IT.
Source: I followed it and screwed up my phone; sent it off to LG and they're probably gonna ship it back in a couple of days . So yeah.

All of the comments for the guide also complain about how it destroyed people's phones, so let's all contact them and get them to take it down.
http://www.androidauthority.com/contact-us/
@androidauth

That guide is the wrong way to do the old method....which is the problem...

rani9990 said:
There is a guide out there. A horribly wrong guide. A guide that will permanently hard brick your P930 with NO CHANCE of ever getting it back. EVER. This guide is located at http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-nitro-hd-clockworkmod-cwm-recovery-48447/ and you MUST AVOID IT. This guide is also the first one that shows up when you search "Install Clockworkmod Recovery on LG Nitro HD". A word of warning to fellow users, DON'T FOLLOW IT.
Source: I followed it and screwed up my phone; sent it off to LG and they're having problems FML . So yeah.
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Not that I'm encourage anyone to follow the manual CWM recovery update instructions posted on Android Authority, but just for sharing and information purposes the recovery partition on the LG Nitro HD is located on mmcblk0p13, not on mmcblk0p6. Also, for those who installed the ICS leak, CMW recovery does not work.
Here's a link to a posting from repherb listing the valid partitions used on the LG Nitro HD for each of the file image types.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20868554&postcount=1

New info
Turns out they have posted a second guide with the correct information (mm....0p13), but it hasn't even reached the front page of google search, so right now the aforementioned site is probably the most dangerous website for P930 users wanting to install CWM.

This is why they need to delete their old article, or, holy-****-here's-a-thought, they could simply redirect from the ****ed up guide URL to the new, correct one.

rani9990 said:
There is a guide out there. A horribly wrong guide. A guide that will permanently hard brick your P930 with NO CHANCE of ever getting it back. EVER. This guide is located at http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-nitro-hd-clockworkmod-cwm-recovery-48447/ and you MUST AVOID IT. This guide is also the first one that shows up when you search "Install Clockworkmod Recovery on LG Nitro HD". A word of warning to fellow users, DON'T FOLLOW IT.
Source: I followed it and screwed up my phone; sent it off to LG and they're probably gonna ship it back in a couple of days . So yeah.
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i bricked my phone trying to put at&t images over leaked ICS. using unbricking guide. now the phone doesn't turn on. hard bricked i suppose.. so LG can repair this?.. i will also try and send it to LG.

hem.acharya said:
i bricked my phone trying to put at&t images over leaked ICS. using unbricking guide. now the phone doesn't turn on. hard bricked i suppose.. so LG can repair this?.. i will also try and send it to LG.
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Yes they will fix it. I sent mine a couple of weeks back and it's coming back June 9th.

Yes!!!! They've finally deleted their guide! No more shall we have to suffer the hard bricked users! Someone throw a party!

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rani9990 said:
Yes!!!! They've finally deleted their guide! No more shall we have to suffer the hard bricked users! Someone throw a party!
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Now that this guide is deleted, many people will go to the other links under there, which also do the mm0p6 method.
Examples: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/install-clockworkmod-recovery-cwm-on-lg-nitro-hd/
http://www.androidegis.com/how-to/learn-how-to-install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-lg-nitro-hd/

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[Q] Help!

Hello everyone, I just got a problem last night. I tried to permroot my G2 using Visionary+ and once it rebooted it got stuck on the HTC loadup screen. I have done a factory reset and have gone into recovery mode but when I do go into recovery mode, I get a droid phone with an exclamation mark in the middle and it just stays there.
I don't know many details about the phone other than what I can tell you from the HBOOT menu, I'd rather avoid sending it back in for a warranty repair unless I can just get to the normal screen where I can unroot it, I don't care who you are I just need help on what to do because I have no idea :\
Thanks guys, you're my last hope >:|
First off, this is why you DO NOT use visionary. Well documented to brick phones:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025135
You can start off trying to recover your brick by looking at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842495
You might as well have written that in chinese, I have no idea what any of this means. it's S-ON and it won't go into recovery mode.
Walk me through what I need to do..? :\
So I had a thought, if I could use a friends Android which, Idk the model to, but could I just uninstall Visionary from there? Would that do anything at all?
xTyrant said:
You might as well have written that in chinese, I have no idea what any of this means. it's S-ON and it won't go into recovery mode.
Walk me through what I need to do..? :\
So I had a thought, if I could use a friends Android which, Idk the model to, but could I just uninstall Visionary from there? Would that do anything at all?
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You cant really uninstall visionary if you cant even boot up your phone. Right now the rom is corrupted and you need to follow an unbricking guide like the one mentioned above
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
xTyrant said:
So I had a thought, if I could use a friends Android which, Idk the model to, but could I just uninstall Visionary from there? Would that do anything at all?
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What are you talking about? Connecting your phone to your friend's phone? It doesn't work that way.
Alright everyone, I called T-Mobile and I'm having a new phone by tomorrow, there's nothing I can do as, I have no idea how to fix my corrupted ROM,
I tried following the unbricking guide but I can't so much as get my phone detected by my computer to even do anything with it.
And another noob bites the dust
Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'
xTyrant said:
Alright everyone, I called T-Mobile and I'm having a new phone by tomorrow, there's nothing I can do as, I have no idea how to fix my corrupted ROM,
I tried following the unbricking guide but I can't so much as get my phone detected by my computer to even do anything with it.
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You really need to research before you try to root your phone. Like a lot of research.
and when you brick it, you need to research to try and un-brick it. This stuff is easy, but its tedious, and if you're not ready to deal with hours of trying to fix your phone, you shouldn't been rushing into rooting.
All of the info is in that thread. Dozens of people have followed it and recovered their semi-brick.
martonikaj said:
You really need to research before you try to root your phone. Like a lot of research.
and when you brick it, you need to research to try and un-brick it. This stuff is easy, but its tedious, and if you're not ready to deal with hours of trying to fix your phone, you shouldn't been rushing into rooting.
All of the info is in that thread. Dozens of people have followed it and recovered their semi-brick.
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Agree with everything you said. One click roots can be dangerous and tempting, as they lure people to an easy method, without having to learn the basics . . . and that's how the trouble starts. Especially when the one click root method is known to result in possible semi bricks.
If anybody wonders why HTC tried going to locked bootloaders, or constantly trying to increase the security against rooting, situations like this is why. People not wanting to make an effort to root by proper methods, or fix their mistakes, and claiming a "warranty issue".

[Q] No Service after using Odin to install XWKDD insecure

I followed external instructions titled "How to Root Samsung Galaxy S2 easily" (sorry, can't link) to attempt to root my brand new Epic Touch on Sprint in the US. And while everything seemed to work, the phone now has No Service. Just a big old circle with a slash through it, no matter how many times I reboot or how long the battery is out of the phone.
I am fairly inexperienced with rooting phones... I've flashed a few roms to an old Droid X, but that's about it. I'd love if someone more advanced would advise me on the right steps here so I can avoid bricking this further. I'd like to come out of this unexpected situation with a successful root, but beggars can't be choosers; I'd be happy to just undo this and get the phone back to working order.
Thank you!
blers said:
I followed external instructions titled "How to Root Samsung Galaxy S2 easily" (sorry, can't link) to attempt to root my brand new Epic Touch on Sprint in the US. And while everything seemed to work, the phone now has No Service. Just a big old circle with a slash through it, no matter how many times I reboot or how long the battery is out of the phone.
I am fairly inexperienced with rooting phones... I've flashed a few roms to an old Droid X, but that's about it. I'd love if someone more advanced would advise me on the right steps here so I can avoid bricking this further. I'd like to come out of this unexpected situation with a successful root, but beggars can't be choosers; I'd be happy to just undo this and get the phone back to working order.
Thank you!
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Flash back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
Sent from the future.
Check your baseband version. Does it say unknown??
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

Anyone can write up an official ICS root guide?

It is my first LG phone and I've spent several nights try to get this P930 unbrick and root, without any success. So is there some guru able to come up a complete step by step guide, from unbrick to root, and along with the links to all the files? Or am I asking too much? Compare to the Samsung phones, this LG is a nitemare.
Machzelet's unbricking guide which is stickied in this very forum could not be any easier to follow. It is pretty much impossible to spoon-feed it to you any more clearly. The unbricking guide is the only known way to achieve root for ICS at this time and is the only way to get ClockworkMod installed.
one day i'm going to be exceptionally drunk and bump every single *i need you to write me my own custom how-to root my nitro* thread and fill up the entire front page of this forum with them. prolly overflow onto page 2.
scott0 said:
one day i'm going to be exceptionally drunk and bump every single *i need you to write me my own custom how-to root my nitro* thread and fill up the entire front page of this forum with them. prolly overflow onto page 2.
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I bet it would go to page 3
That's funny bc I'm drunk right now
Sent from my LG-P930 using xda app-developers app

Bricked Optimus G

Got a new Sprint Optimus G on Craigslist, and against my better judgement due to my previous experience of successfully unlocking/rooting Android devices, I did not completely read the directions for doing so. After I had it rooted and used FreeGee.apk, I did not backup the items from the FreeGee menu. The phone is now just sitting tight at the LG logo. Any advice?
Flash back to stock if you can get into download mode
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda app-developers app
jyeley5 said:
Got a new Sprint Optimus G on Craigslist, and against my better judgement due to my previous experience of successfully unlocking/rooting Android devices, I did not completely read the directions for doing so. After I had it rooted and used FreeGee.apk, I did not backup the items from the FreeGee menu. The phone is now just sitting tight at the LG logo. Any advice?
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Like foxsdaddy said, you'll probably need to Lgnpst back to stock if you can get it back to download mode...
This might help:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
There are a bunch of other threads on here that detail how to go about fixing boot errors, if that link doesn't help, keep searching! Theres a bunch of good information on here about it.

Help!!! I just bricked my tmobile lg h811 trying to root it! Please help me fix it!

SO I JUST TRIED TO ROOT MY DEVICE AND I DID EVERYTHING THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE ROOT TUTORIAL PROVIDED BY THE PEOPLE OF XDA DEVELOPERS.
THREAD NAME IS .. [ROOT] TMO/VZW/ATT/SPRINT/INTL Root your LG G4 with Low Effort Root!
MY DEVICE IS HARD BRICKED AND WHEN I TRY TURNING IT ON, A SECURITY ERROR SHOWS UP AND IT SAYS AUTHENTICATION FAIL #11 ..AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS..PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASEEEE! ANY KIND OF HELP WOULD BE REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANKS.
Phone is not hard bricked otherwise it would not turn on at all, sounds like soft-brick and needs factory resetting.
Go to here: http://www.androidexplained.com/lg-g4-how-to-boot-into-download-mode/ and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/guide-lg-g4-stock-firmware-to-stock-kdz-t3107848 to get everything you require.
It will wipe your phone as factory, so hopefully you have things backed up before this occurred
passion8059 said:
Phone is not hard bricked otherwise it would not turn on at all, sounds like soft-brick and needs factory resetting.
Go to here: http://www.androidexplained.com/lg-g4-how-to-boot-into-download-mode/ and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/guide-lg-g4-stock-firmware-to-stock-kdz-t3107848 to get everything you require.
It will wipe your phone as factory, so hopefully you have things backed up before this occurred
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thank you so much i will do that right now, but, once i do that i still want to root my lg g4, do you know how i can achieve that? ..or is there like a trusted website where it can root it for me? ..i dont mind paying at all..thanks
Try this cannot guarantee anything though! Good Luck: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-g4/development/tool-one-click-twrp-root-t3172936
I Fixed it on my H811. For those who need help, i have written the thread
Visit http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-g4/general/lg-g4-h811-complete-unbrick-guide-100-t3461629

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