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I Think My Phone Is Bricked!!!

My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!

Fly2Deaf said:
My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
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So what exactly happened?
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Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.

I handed my phone to my mother to show her a picture and when she went to hand it to my aunt, my aunt dropped it. I didnt think nothing of it when I locked the screen but when I went to unlock it, my phone restarted and went to a straight black screen and started to vibrate over and over again. I tried to pull the battery and then re-insert it and boot into recovery but when recovery showed up and I went to restore to a previous ROM the phone rebooted itself and started vibrating again. Now I'm at the computer trying to place it into Download Mode. The screen pops up that says to either push Vol + for Download or Vol- for restart. When I press Vol+, the phone restarts and goes straight to a black screen again.
And I'm not a noob, I know what I'm doing my phone just started acting up
And I'm Running the AOKP ROM with Eugene's ICS Kernel with the Tmo_SGH-T989_LC8_Radio

What previous from were you trying to restore?? When you restore a nand back up you have to make sure that the rom you're restoring is the rom that's already installed. In other words if you wanted to restore a back up you would have needed to flash the correct rom before hand. Though I'm confused because if you did try and restore a previous rom say a cm9 back up and you have aokp currently installed it shouldn't work. Cwm will tell you there's a mismatch and it aborts the installation. My guess is this drop did some damage. Your phone isn't making it past post per say of your using pc terms. Can you try and boot back into cwm? You said download mode doesn't work. But does cwm?

kr3w1337 said:
Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
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He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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I couldn't even get into cwm at all. But now i was able to get into Download Mode to flash back to Stock ICS using Oden and now Oden won't flash The ICS ROM back to my phone for some reason. Oden does recognize my phone but it won't flash anything

I would buy a USB jig they're cheap on eBay it'll force into download mode so u can restore in odin
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I don't know what I did but thankfully I got it to boot into CWM and I'm restoring my ROM

maybe hardware problems if you dropped it, wasn't bricked, we usually say bricking a phone from bad flash, don't we? lol, i am not sure. try taking off sim card, micro sd card and battery then carefully put them back on next time if you have problems from drops etc........

Got to admit the whole "Brick" wording gets thrown around way too much for my liking and lets be honest if you are not a noob then you know all the steps to take in my opinion to try and restore your phone. If those steps dont work and you have researched the web then let Insurance kick in if you have it.
Not trying to flame or be an ass but just saying any non noob should know the steps to try and bring our phone back from the dead... I dont think starting a "Brick" thread should be on that list... Coming from the epic touch where the ICS kernel was bricking everyone its just makes me cringe when I see that word.... My bad man if you don't care for my opinion
IJS

Have the exact same problem, can't get it into recovery or download mode.
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RushAOZ said:
He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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He got as far as ROM so I knew for a fact that he could get to download and/or recovery. Just like he in fact did.
Idiot. Learn more about the phone you hold.
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Play nice. It's fun to read about people's phone situations.
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Here is my 2 cents
Yes people jump the gun and post bricked phone threads but that's probably because they are panicking.. And yes I agree that people should use the search function and read whenever possible.. And yes people should be reminded to do so..
But if you have the time to criticize someone then why don't you try to help them too..
If you have nothing helpful to add then don't post anything
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth

I had this same problem,when I tried to go in to recovery and do a restore it would reboot its self even while flashing a Rom.what I did was...go in to recovery and quickly clear cache before it reboot then go back and clear dalvik then go back and try to flash the same Rom you had installed. It did work for mange when I was trying to restore.
Hope this helps
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RushAOZ said:
Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Honestly, your the type of person everyone hates on xda.
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so you tried..
1. remove battery.
2. plug in phone to usb on computer with battery STILL OUT
3. while plugged in hold down volume up and down.
4. Still plugged in and still holding the volume up and down, insert your battery.
5. boom choose continue and find download mode.
If this doesn't get you to DL mode then either something broke hardware wise when you dropped it, OR your not being honest with what you did to cause the problem..

Soft keys flashing then to CWM 5.8.2 cannot install rom

I'm fairly a noob when it comes to rooting and whatnot, however i've learned quite a bit since i've started. I rooted nexus s with no hassel. My friend the other day gave me a LG Nitro HD, the phone boots shows the LG logo then goes to the Clockworkmod touch 5.8.2. I have tried installing roms on it, it will install the rom and run then when i try to reboot, the soft keys will flash for 2 mins before showing the LG logo and going back to the Clockworkmod again. Keep in mind there is nothing on the SD card besides the signed_HO!NO!_p930 i have tried other os's too. I don't know exactly what he did to his phone. Please help me out. Thanks a bunch guys :laugh:

luqman91 said:
I'm fairly a noob when it comes to rooting and whatnot, however i've learned quite a bit since i've started. I rooted nexus s with no hassel. My friend the other day gave me a LG Nitro HD, the phone boots shows the LG logo then goes to the Clockworkmod touch 5.8.2. I have tried installing roms on it, it will install the rom and run then when i try to reboot, the soft keys will flash for 2 mins before showing the LG logo and going back to the Clockworkmod again. Keep in mind there is nothing on the SD card besides the signed_HO!NO!_p930 i have tried other os's too. I don't know exactly what he did to his phone. Please help me out. Thanks a bunch guys :laugh:
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I am having the exact same issue here for two days now... I did a full back up prior to flashing yet still nothing and no matter what ROM I try I wind up back in CWM....
I am going to stop bye a shop were I know a guy that does rooting and such and take the phone to see...Will keep you posted from this side anxious to read what others may say.

Try following machzelets or mattman86's unbricking guide. Well thats if you can get into download mode.
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rani9990 said:
Try following machzelets or mattman86's unbricking guide. Well thats if you can get into download mode.
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I know I cannot get into download mode, Will be interested to see if Lugman can or not ... So unbricking is not an option at this point for me. Tried that yesterday also.
Lugman please post any progress sounds though we are in the same river of CWM... Why the HOX is so easy compared to this ....

Try charging it then do a battery pull then plug in the USB while holding the volume update. This should bring up a screen saying download mode. Then unbrick from there.
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rani9990 said:
Try charging it then do a battery pull then plug in the USB while holding the volume update. This should bring up a screen saying download mode. Then unbrick from there.
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Yes that worked that specific method, its in download mode however my laptop says that the device driver software was not successfully installed. I dunno what to do after this.

luqman91 said:
Yes that worked that specific method, its in download mode however my laptop says that the device driver software was not successfully installed. I dunno what to do after this.
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You can go here:
http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-P930#software
Download the drivers and have a blast... I dropped mine off at the shop to see if the guy can do something... He mentioned that he has seen some of this going on with CWM sticking he tried some methods and a couple different ROMS and also nothing. So I left it hoping I get the call that all is well in the AM.
Anyway GOOD LUCK ..

Thanks alot man, am gonna try all this out and see how it all works. I appreciate your help. am gonna post here what the progress is and whatnot. so check back!

luqman91 said:
Thanks alot man, am gonna try all this out and see how it all works. I appreciate your help. am gonna post here what the progress is and whatnot. so check back!
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Great let us know... I have mine at the shop the guy is using the inbricking guide from here to do some magic (I hope) thought I would have the phone back today but told maybe tomorrow as it takes a long time to do the process...
Not sure I ever want to use CMW first will have to read up more on it....

Stuck on Google splash screen..getting desperate.

First off I have a Verizon gnex. My phone was all fine and dandy running CM9 on ICS, then I installed CM10 and it was working great until I would get weird bootloops at the Google screen. Eventually it would boot, I guess it's some sort of file check or something? But it was really making me mad.
I tried wiping everything and installing CM9 again but it was still stuck and when it eventually booted, nothing was changed! I still had CM10 and all my apps/data were there. Weird I thought, so I just kept using my phone trying to find a fix and trying to not let it die.
I did a factory reset and it seemed to make the process of getting passed the Google screen faster up until last night...it died and did not want to get past the Google screen. So I ran Odin with all the factory images and what not and thought it was going to work..but nope same problem.
Also my recovery will not work and I tried to flash it again but if I hold up and down volume and power and choose recovery it will just restart and be back at the google screen.
PLEASE HELP! I just shelled out 280 bucks for this used because I didn't want to lose my unlimited data and now I can't even use my phone!

I've waited up to 15 min sometimes on JB. Just be patient. Flash the Verizon JB boot loader if you haven't already. It's here on XDA somewhere
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BFirebird101 said:
I've waited up to 15 min sometimes on JB. Just be patient. Flash the Verizon JB boot loader if you haven't already. It's here on XDA somewhere
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I've waited way more than 15 minutes..it will just keep going and going until it freezes or dies.
edit: also I'm not even on JB, stock ICS.

Is anyone else having the same problem? Anyone have suggestions on what I should do?

Flash the stock images using fastboot instead of ODIN.
See if that will work.

El Daddy said:
Flash the stock images using fastboot instead of ODIN.
See if that will work.
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Sorry I should have mentioned that I tried that before Odin, thanks though.

El Daddy said:
Flash the stock images using fastboot instead of ODIN.
See if that will work.
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Well i just went back and tried that again and it finally let me boot but it soon went back into bootloop madness. I did it again and it booted up gain but of course went back into the loop. Now injust tried it again and that wont even work now..

I have the same problem, but when using JB ROMs...
See here (still cannot figure it out):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1826749
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N/m, figured it out.

crobs808 said:
I have the same problem, but when using JB ROMs...
See here (still cannot figure it out):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1826749
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N/m, figured it out.
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Followed that thread, but didnt really see exactly how you went about fixing it. What method is in the exe you created?

Do you have a VZW Nexus (toro)? I can post my EXE if so.
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Reset guide in my sig now

[Q] Think I bricked...

Bleh just got my Optimus yesterday, came stock with zv9. Decided to root today and had no trouble, flashed TWRP recovery using FreeGee then updated to the newest TWRP version using GooManager. Made a backup using TWRP then used GooManager to download Lifeless ROM. Just downloaded, didn't flash. After the download was done I shut off my Optimus but when I went to restart it, it powered on, showed the LG logo for half a second then just went to a black screen. Can't boot to recovery. Whenever I try and turn the phone off it just restarts again showing the logo for brief period of time then black. Any ideas? It's gotta be bricked but I just don't understand how or why. Probably going to try and take the battery out and see what happens.

hotpeanuts said:
Bleh just got my Optimus yesterday, came stock with zv9. Decided to root today and had no trouble, flashed TWRP recovery using FreeGee then updated to the newest TWRP version using GooManager. Made a backup using TWRP then used GooManager to download Lifeless ROM. Just downloaded, didn't flash. After the download was done I shut off my Optimus but when I went to restart it, it powered on, showed the LG logo for half a second then just went to a black screen. Can't boot to recovery. Whenever I try and turn the phone off it just restarts again showing the logo for brief period of time then black. Any ideas? It's gotta be bricked but I just don't understand how or why. Probably going to try and take the battery out and see what happens.
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okay well your not bricked if you can get even a little life like an LG screen. hook phone up to computer and use adb to get into bootloader and try to reflash the recovery img again. it just sounds like you need to reflash your recovery. thats why it didnt flash. lemme know. ill keep checking back on the thread for awhile

Evolutionmods said:
okay well your not bricked if you can get even a little life like an LG screen. hook phone up to computer and use adb to get into bootloader and try to reflash the recovery img again. it just sounds like you need to reflash your recovery. thats why it didnt flash. lemme know. ill keep checking back on the thread for awhile
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Okay perfect I appreciate it. Downloading SDK right now, I'm away from my desktop and didn't have it on my lappy. LG has a program similar to ODIN too right? Would that maybe work as well?

You would need LGNPST. you can find it in the IRC if you can get to download mode you can flash back to stock and start over.

neemot said:
You would need LGNPST. you can find it in the IRC if you can get to download mode you can flash back to stock and start over.
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Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.

I ran the command "adb devices" and the Optimus didn't show up. Is there anything else I can do/try?

hotpeanuts said:
Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.
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Just because the screen doesn't come on don't think the phone is off. Plug that sucker in. If you see the logo you should be able to get in download mode. Also, if the phone is on, you will eventually see some green android screen.
The same thing happened to my phone once. I only know of one way to hard brick this phone. I am not telling anyone how. But, I doubt you did that. It isn't something you would accidentally do.
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hotpeanuts said:
Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.
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Sometimes my power button won't work for dlmode just hold volume down volume up and plug in

kc_exactly said:
Just because the screen doesn't come on don't think the phone is off. Plug that sucker in. If you see the logo you should be able to get in download mode. Also, if the phone is on, you will eventually see some green android screen.
The same thing happened to my phone once. I only know of one way to hard brick this phone. I am not telling anyone how. But, I doubt you did that. It isn't something you would accidentally do.
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It's on but it just shows a flat black screen. No matter how long it is on it doesn't get passed that. Also, when it's plugged in there aren't any charging lights. Not sure what to do since adb doesn't recognize it.

neemot said:
Sometimes my power button won't work for dlmode just hold volume down volume up and plug in
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Holy boobs volume up and plugging in worked. You are an angel much thanks.

I had the same situation a month or two ago. Try leaving it off for 20 minutes and see if it boots back up. Worked for me and like you I had no idea why it did that
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Funny, that plugging it in step is always overlooked. I should of told you that.
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Haha KC glad I can state the easiest part lol
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i did this this past weekend. Dumb mistake, i forot that it wiped the unlocked and there isnt unlocking yet for JB.
After using LGNPST my radios/3g/network connection is screwed up. I cant connect to anything.

Update your profile.
If that doesn't work LGNPST again. Factory reset. Then update the profile.
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If what kc doesn't end up working it could be that you efs got wiped. Check this thread for help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161498
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These are what I tried:
factory wipe/data reset from stock recovery
MSL reset (suggested by Sprint)
lgnpst reset
All of which failed to work

tlxxxsracer said:
These are what I tried:
factory wipe/data reset from stock recovery
MSL reset (suggested by Sprint)
lgnpst reset
All of which failed to work
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Had you made back ups of your efs?

hi, i just tried to update to jb evrything was going fine and all of the sudden the screen shut off and now the charging light and the buttons are flashing, im rooted and was doing the update through twrp.
please help, thanks

Ram1500 said:
hi, i just tried to update to jb evrything was going fine and all of the sudden the screen shut off and now the charging light and the buttons are flashing, im rooted and was doing the update through twrp.
please help, thanks
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You are going to have to pull the battery.

Phone Brick

ok so i put on jelly bean on my optimus G it all went well but then i tried putting google wallet on n i tried a way through the file browser i found on youtube well i couldnt mount it so i just restarted my fone well it bricked it. It would boot android up so i tried lgnpst and now it just gets stuck at the 4g LTE screen and i tried like 3 different times no luck please help

Reynolds1029 said:
ok so i put on jelly bean on my optimus G it all went well but then i tried putting google wallet on n i tried a way through the file browser i found on youtube well i couldnt mount it so i just restarted my fone well it bricked it. It would boot android up so i tried lgnpst and now it just gets stuck at the 4g LTE screen and i tried like 3 different times no luck please help
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Come join the IRC at webchat.freenode.net channel #lg-optimus-g and i'm sure someone there will be able to help you out.

Factory reset the phone.
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Reynolds1029 said:
ok so i put on jelly bean on my optimus G it all went well but then i tried putting google wallet on n i tried a way through the file browser i found on youtube well i couldnt mount it so i just restarted my fone well it bricked it. It would boot android up so i tried lgnpst and now it just gets stuck at the 4g LTE screen and i tried like 3 different times no luck please help
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You are gonna have to turn off your phone, hold the vol down+the home button+the power button til the captive lights flash. This will get you into the stock recovery and you can factory wipe like kc said by going to wipe data then factory reset.
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javskies said:
You are gonna have to turn off your phone, hold the vol down+the home button+the power button til the captive lights flash. This will get you into the stock recovery and you can factory wipe like kc said by going to wipe data then factory reset.
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Damn, you are so thorough.
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kc_exactly said:
Damn, you are so thorough.
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Lol thank you. Since devs are spending so much time trying to figure out the whole jb situation I feel like the least I can do is put time into helping people so they don't have to. Were just one big happy ecosystem lol
Edit: also I want to say sorry about the whole jb leak thing. It got kinda out of hand and I should've stopped. Again my apologies.
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Yeah thanks everybody factory reset worked but i lost my progress in Hill Climb Racing :/ lol oh well

Hi, I was updating my phone to jellybean. i forgot to download freegee and flashed twrp now im stuck with the lg logo and on the top it says secure boot error. i can get into download mode but i dont know what to do. any advice would be appreciated
Thanks

Ram1500 said:
Hi, I was updating my phone to jellybean. i forgot to download freegee and flashed twrp now im stuck with the lg logo and on the top it says secure boot error. i can get into download mode but i dont know what to do. any advice would be appreciated
Thanks
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Go to IRC and get hooked up with lgnpst. That will fix you up.