So, a few days ago I flashed the Vanilla Root Box rom from a rooted & unlocked stock rom. Couldn't get a GPS lock so I read that some people had luck by flashing a ZVB rom, getting a GPS lock, and flashing back to Root Box. Well, when I flashed back to a stock rooted ZVB rom, my LGOG got stuck on the LG logo and wouldn't boot completely. So I went back into recovery, Hard Reset and Wiped Cache and Dalvik, Fixed Permissions, and tried to reboot..... still stuck.
Then I tried to flash back to Root Box and it wouldn't boot passed the startup screen either. So I said screw it and tried to use LGNPST with a ZVB teenybin. It seemed to load the software fine, but the phone would not boot or let me get to the fastboot screen so I couldn't get into recovery. After another attempt, I used LGNPST with a complete stock ZVB bin.
The phone finally booted completely but then I realized the home button had lost ALL functionality and the phone, when connected to the computer, wouldn't pull up the options to change from Charge Only to MTP/PTP. I had to manually go to PC Connection and change it from there. After rooting and then unlocking using FreeGee, tried to boot back into recovery and got stuck in ANOTHER boot loop at the LG screen. Decided to use LGNPST to downgrade to ZV9 and then LGNPST again to ZVB. I have now regained my home button and the device recognizes when connected to the computer.
However, my main problem now is, between all that flashing it looks like my device created a second storage partition. I now have a completely new internal storage file system and It took my regular storage and put it under a folder named "0". Has anyone ever seen this? Can I just pull off what I need from the old stuff and delete the "0" folder?
I have attached a picture to what my files look like now. It's in a .7z because the size of the image was too large. On the left is the new system with the "0" folder highlighted and on the right is what's inside the "0" folder.
Okay buddy.
So my fast boot screen doesn't let me display the options I toggle so I have to wing it to get into recovery.
The sdcard is emulated so the internal folders will be /0 and /0/0 and so on. So you just need to travel those directories until you find you ROM and gapps.
I'm not used to the way the LG OG emulates the sdcard but I'm getting there.
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Thanks man. Im just gonna backup what I need and delete the 0 folder. But I realized I have a new problem now. My device refuses to boot into the bootloader so I cant get into recovery. Every time I try, my device gets stuck at the LG screen and I have to use a TeenyBin to get the device to boot all the way.
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its just sitting on the freaking LG screen... every time i vol dwn + pwr and double press power it goes normal but then cwm doesn't come up and it just restarts and hangs at LG again. i ****ing hate this phone can someone please help me out? why won't cwm load
can you describe exactly the process you took to port CWM into your phone? Let's see if something happened along the way to cause it to not work properly.
Also, is CWM the one not working, or did you flash a ROM on your phone and something went wrong, and you are trying to get to CWM to restore your phone but not getting anywhere with it?
aquariuz23 said:
can you describe exactly the process you took to port CWM into your phone? Let's see if something happened along the way to cause it to not work properly.
Also, is CWM the one not working, or did you flash a ROM on your phone and something went wrong, and you are trying to get to CWM to restore your phone but not getting anywhere with it?
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followed the steps on the cwm thread. used terminal emulator. worked great. was working fine until now. i flashed kernels beta 2 and only wiped cache and dalvik and now nothing is working. no cwm to restore, can't even get to the at&t boot animation. this is a mystery.
mic.mayorga said:
followed the steps on the cwm thread. used terminal emulator. worked great. was working fine until now. i flashed kernels beta 2 and only wiped cache and dalvik and now nothing is working. no cwm to restore, can't even get to the at&t boot animation. this is a mystery.
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Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately I can't help much at all since I haven't done either yet (CWM or Kernels/rom installations) so rather than making things worse for you, I'll leave it to the Pros here to help you. Im sure one of them will respond back soon enough.
Try this:
Disconnect the phone and pull out the battery.
Put battery back in and plug phone to a wall charger. Let it boot to the battery charging screen. Once there press and hold POWER + VOLDOWN
Depends on type of the problem, it helped me 9 out 10 times...
tried it at least 20 times now. just realized that i didn't format /system nor did i update cwm yesterday. probably the root of all these problems. I'm just gonna start fresh with the kdz. I'm on a mac though so its going to be a long night starting with boot camp.
I'm having the same problems...well kind of...
I followed all the instructions for CWM and everything went great. No real issues but had to reinstall the .img twice and then was perfect thereafter. Saw the beta 2 ROM and figured what the hey...downloaded and installed to SD Card. Used CWM/Nandroid to do a backup then installed the zip for the ROM from the sd card.
It took a matter of 10 seconds and said it was successful/done and restarted phone-got a boot loop on LG screen for about 15 minutes and finally did a battery pull-tried several times to get it into CWM with no luck and finally was able to get in-but had to plug it into the wall and wait for charging screen to show. Was able to restore and all was well until turning the phone off.
Turning off the phone now causes the phone to loop on the ATT screen-I can get into download mode and can get into CWM and restore and all is well until turning phone off.
I figured it just needs a fresh install so I've been trying to flash the kdz but the firmware updater keeps faulting and never makes it through the process...so I'm stuck...have all the files I need (I believe) and have everything in place...just can't get it back to normal.
Any ideas from here?
Thanks in advance!
Yeah, sometimes it could be quicker just start over and restore backups...
While you there, would you mind do this: Needed SystemUI.apk from SU640
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@fishscale28:
did you do kdz unbrick before? If not, then perhaps you are not doing it right...btw, kdz file for LU6200 didn't work for me.
Nope-never done a kdz unbrick before-I have the kdz v10i_00 for the 640. I have all the drivers installed, the parser deal installed, windows enabler program running and use the kdz updater to update the firmware. Is there something Im missing here? Seems like several people have gotten the updater to crash when trying to update the firmware...any ideas why?
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I went through a few of the threads and saw there was a .dll file to be deleted in the updater folders so I did that and now I can do absolutely nothing with the program. Only start and exit...am unable to select anything, view anything, get anything to function...
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Nope-never done a kdz unbrick before-I have the kdz v10i_00 for the 640. I have all the drivers installed, the parser deal installed, windows enabler program running and use the kdz updater to update the firmware. Is there something Im missing here? Seems like several people have gotten the updater to crash when trying to update the firmware...any ideas why?
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I went through a few of the threads and saw there was a .dll file to be deleted in the updater folders so I did that and now I can do absolutely nothing with the program. Only start and exit...am unable to select anything, view anything, get anything to function...
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I installed from the kdz yesterday and didn't have to delete any files. I'm on Win 7 x64. The first time it ran it told me to restart my phone cause it didn't see it, but the second time it ran until my phone reboot and I killed the program. Be sure you have the KDZ_FW_UPD_EN with UpTestEX_mod2_marwin.exe in it. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your help. I did all that...again...I even deleted, reinstalled all the updater stuff, tried running as admin, tried running in compatibility mode, ran it after deleting the recommended .dll file and the option to do anything was gone, put it back in and was able to run everything fine and a little after extracting the kdz it would crash. I unplugged the phone and re-ran the proggy and it went through the check, noticed the phone wasn't hooked up and finished the check. Plug phone in, start process over and proggy crashes.
I don't get it-I would say its the wrong kdz but its not. I installed all the drivers and it still doesn't work. I've tried every combo of everything and the proggies keep crashing.
Now I was finally able to get into CWM to flash another ROM and was able to get one going-was able to boot into the os but same as before-once the phone is turned off it starts the boot loop. Now its even harder to get back to CWM but a restore works from there. Any ideas on why the boot image keeps reverting back to whatever was screwed up? Has to be something that happens once the system starts up again as it's after a restore and when the phone is turned off. Stumped and would love to be able to use my phone...It seems like flashing the kdz would be the sure fire way to get it done-are there options aside from the updaters that keep crashing?
Thanks in advance!
Maybe http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ can help?
alright so i got to the 4% thing and my phone rebooted but it kept looping to the screen LG Optimus LTE bootscreen with the pink candy cane. thats it. i did vol dwn + pwr and got the android arrow and box with loading bar no text, then it rebooted back to the optimus lte screen. never got to the setup screen. tried the kdz again and my phone died. now when i plug it in i only get download mode... does it charge in download mode and why did it not get to the setup screen?!
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Thanks for your help. I did all that...again...I even deleted, reinstalled all the updater stuff, tried running as admin, tried running in compatibility mode, ran it after deleting the recommended .dll file and the option to do anything was gone, put it back in and was able to run everything fine and a little after extracting the kdz it would crash. I unplugged the phone and re-ran the proggy and it went through the check, noticed the phone wasn't hooked up and finished the check. Plug phone in, start process over and proggy crashes.
I don't get it-I would say its the wrong kdz but its not. I installed all the drivers and it still doesn't work. I've tried every combo of everything and the proggies keep crashing.
Now I was finally able to get into CWM to flash another ROM and was able to get one going-was able to boot into the os but same as before-once the phone is turned off it starts the boot loop. Now its even harder to get back to CWM but a restore works from there. Any ideas on why the boot image keeps reverting back to whatever was screwed up? Has to be something that happens once the system starts up again as it's after a restore and when the phone is turned off. Stumped and would love to be able to use my phone...It seems like flashing the kdz would be the sure fire way to get it done-are there options aside from the updaters that keep crashing?
Thanks in advance!
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Even after running the kdz, my phone still does that after installing CWM. I don't know if it's something with my ROM or something with CWM, but if you can't get into CWM you probably don't need to run the kdz. I couldn't get into CWM anymore when I ran it.
So you're saying you go into the boot loop after turning off your phone even after unbricking?
I don't get it-now I can't get into recovery and it keeps up with the boot loop. I've tried running on the virtual PC/XP deal and it doesn't crash but now it doesn't even see the phone...reinstalled all the drivers, etc. and still no luck. Is there anyway to get the kdz installed without this updater?
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So you're saying you go into the boot loop after turning off your phone even after unbricking?
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Yes. I don't think that was happening until I put CWM on. But I can live with it until the issue is solved. I don't think I'm the only one having it.
I broke my screen a couple of days ago. I don't want to change the screen since i decided to buy a new phone. However, I'll like to recover my data from the phone.
Here's my phone condition before i messed it up a bit.
1) Screen cracked and digitizer completely non functional.
2) USB debugging off.
The first time i cracked my screen( yes this is the second time), i used my phone explorer to connect to my phone since my USB debugging was on that time, but this time it was off. So i decided to Google for solution and try to flash recovery and mount my memory in order to get back my media.
I used this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249500
teeny bin plus TWRP and try to go in to recovery. But the TWRP version was not for E975 and it has the password prompt problem. So i decided to fastboot CWM into it directly via adb. I downloaded the latest E975 non touch CWM and fast boot it.
I can control and access into the CWM menu but it keep giving me Error mounting /data! when i try to mount /data and the screen just flash once and go back to the mounts menu when i press mount USB storage.
I thought it was the ROM problem so i tried to flash the original ROM using LG support tool. It successfully flashed the ROM but it get stuck in the starhub logo ( a Singapore telecom and the phone is from Singapore). And then i try to flash E97510G_00.kdz(i'm not sure what version is this but it's a stock ROM) using kdz updater but it stuck in the LG logo too.
So now i'm wondering if my data are still there in the memory or already been wiped out during the process. If it isn't, it'll be really helpful if anyone can guide me through the data recovery process.
So no one can help?
zibion said:
So no one can help?
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KDZ flashing delete all data.
artit said:
KDZ flashing delete all data.
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Ahh i see, no hope in salvaging my contacts then. Thanks for the info. Appreciate it
EDIT: SOLVED. After some hours at work I was able to boot back to the bootloader and flash the images individually.
TL;DR at the bottom.
Hi, I've been rooting and ROMming for a while now, and last night I made a mistake that set forth a chain of depressing events. I have a N7 2013 LTE, and was running AOKP up until last night. I wanted to flash the 9001 L preview, despite having no access to data. Simple right? Wrong, you forget to realize I'm a tired idiot last night. I downloaded the zip no problem, rebooted to TWRP and commenced my advanced wipe. Some how, I mistakenly checked off "wipe internal storage" during the process. So I go back to the Install screen, and my heart sinks. F***. At this point I decide to let it lie in recovery until tomorrow (today) and keep it charged.
Fast forward to this morning, I'm at the office. My device is charged and waiting in recovery. I decide I'm just going to flash the factory image to stock 4.4 and start with a clean slate, wiping all (even though it's wiped). Reason for factory image and not just adb push the ROM is that I'm having a seemingly-unsolvable issue of incorrect storage. It tells me my 32gb device only has 11.6 gb total storage. This has persisted through multiple clean-wiped installs of various ROMs, but I don't know if it started out like that when I bought it, since I didn't think to check before unlocking and putting a ROM on it.
So I get the SDK and images on my work PC, and commence flash-all.bat. Working great until it gets to system.img, then it fails. Try again twice, same thing. Open the image zip and extract the files, then try to flash one by one, now it's saying the commands are invalid (fastboot flash system system.img, etc). So I wonder, because sometimes these devices are wonky in ADB, maybe it installed and just said it failed? F*** it, I'll try to boot. Google logo for an hour. Ok, cool, I'll go back to the bootloader. NOPE. The device either won't power on at all, or it will get stuck at the splash screen and hang there. Any idea where to begin to fix this?
TL;DR: No OS on phone, failed flashing system.img in flash-all.bat, now device won't boot to bootloader or (missing) OS. Any ideas?
Well, as usual, I've managed to mess things up and here I am again. Somehow, I installed something or other that required rebooting. When I did, I kept getting an error that the systemui was messed up. So I decided to try to flash a custom ROM since it appeared this thing was already FUBAR and that's where the fun began. It WAS running stock 4.4.2. I wiped everything in preparation to flash the stock .tot file. Went to flash a zip from the external sdcard, and it refused telling me it couldn't mount the card! The only hopeful thing is that it powers up, I can get into download/recovery, and it's recognized by the PC through LGFT and ADB.
I can't flash anything, can't push or install through ADB, can't sideload anything. LG flash tools gets to about 38 seconds and then fails. It's like the devices permission were all changed to read only. The device is rooted and has CWM recovery. Is there a way to completely slick this thing (except for recovery - I'd do that too if need be) to reset permissions.
Any/all suggestions gladly accepted.
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Well, as usual, I've managed to mess things up and here I am again. Somehow, I installed something or other that required rebooting. When I did, I kept getting an error that the systemui was messed up. So I decided to try to flash a custom ROM since it appeared this thing was already FUBAR and that's where the fun began. It WAS running stock 4.4.2. I wiped everything in preparation to flash the stock .tot file. Went to flash a zip from the external sdcard, and it refused telling me it couldn't mount the card! The only hopeful thing is that it powers up, I can get into download/recovery, and it's recognized by the PC through LGFT and ADB.
I can't flash anything, can't push or install through ADB, can't sideload anything. LG flash tools gets to about 38 seconds and then fails. It's like the devices permission were all changed to read only. The device is rooted and has CWM recovery. Is there a way to completely slick this thing (except for recovery - I'd do that too if need be) to reset permissions.
Any/all suggestions gladly accepted.
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Surprisingly, there was nothing wrong with the phone nor the software nor the PC. After screwing around with this for a couple of days, I had a thought to try a different USB cable. So, I popped it on and, lo & behold, I'm able to flash to stock! Lesson learned: Don't use cheap cables and try changing cables when you're have weird problems like this. :good:
so i followed the recent bootloader unlock, i have the retail in developer mode, i got twrp installed, this i where it gets messy, it went into a bootloop, so i did a wipe on the cache and davk cach, didn't work. even pulled the battery, so i tried the format. same problem, did work, so i did a wipe again which i think i really broke it when i wiped all but the sdcard, so now, NO OS. so i'm trying to get files to reflash stock roms, i found downloads to the stock files btw, currently downloading.
so, i have twrp
no backup (i'ma idiot lol)
no OS installed
bootloader is confirmed to be in developer mode
can't get phone to access fastboot. via adb
only recovery and download avaible
[edit, i can move files onto my sd card by using another phone to move files]
so do i continue with trying to use idon to flash stock rom onto the phone? will twrp still be installed? and will i keep my developer unlocked booloader?
twrp is v2.8.5.0
(been working on this for about 14 hours now)
FIXED!!
ok, so i found a stock recovery file, md5.tar, i'll post a link below.
i used odin, put phone into download mode, connected with odin running as administrator.
selected the file i used in the AP button, (had to wait awhile for it to check md5, doesn't respond during that time)
it failed. so i pulled phone in battery and tried to turn on recovery, it sent me to the download screen and said the verizon update failed. tried to reinstall rom again. pulled battery. said same thing.
i reflashed the TWRP i was using with odin, doing the AP button with it too.
[[It will say failed on deviced and in odin]]
phone now boots up.
[btw the temp root i did was kingroot]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=12450
here is the original post for what i was doing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/note-4-verizon-bootloader-unlock-t3358913
the two walk throughs i found
1. http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/howto-converting-retail-note-4-to-t3358957
2. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152037/20160421/modder-unlocks-verizon-galaxy-note-4-bootloader-heres-how-to-do-it.htm
the stock recovery( reason for old version is because a few can update from this one)
http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_146187538272120&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=inkoi1eq01000n4o000DLb61t4tis&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fnote-4-verizon%2Fdevelopment%2Ffirmware-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-t2942937&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidfilehost.com%2F%3Ffid%3D24052804347793292&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&title=%5BFirmware%5D%20%5BOfficial%5D%20Firmware%20%2F%20Kernel%20%2F%20Mo%E2%80%A6%20%7C%20Verizon%20Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%204&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidfilehost.com%2F%3Ffid%3D24052804347793292
this is the main page to find the stock roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/development/firmware-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-t2942937
i may have put the wrong title
dragont4 said:
i may have put the wrong title
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Try adb push worked for me
axeldiks1 said:
Try adb push worked for me
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for moving files right?
fixed!!
dragont4 said:
for moving files right?
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Yes just download a rom and flash it after you push it to your storage
dragont4 said:
so i followed the recent bootloader unlock, i have the retail in developer mode, i got twrp installed, this i where it gets messy, it went into a bootloop, so i did a wipe on the cache and davk cach, didn't work. even pulled the battery, so i tried the format. same problem, did work, so i did a wipe again which i think i really broke it when i wiped all but the sdcard, so now, NO OS. so i'm trying to get files to reflash stock roms, i found downloads to the stock files btw, currently downloading.
so, i have twrp
no backup (i'ma idiot lol)
no OS installed
bootloader is confirmed to be in developer mode
can't get phone to access fastboot. via adb
only recovery and download avaible
[edit, i can move files onto my sd card by using another phone to move files]
so do i continue with trying to use idon to flash stock rom onto the phone? will twrp still be installed? and will i keep my developer unlocked booloader?
twrp is v2.8.5.0
(been working on this for about 14 hours now)
FIXED!!
ok, so i found a stock recovery file, md5.tar, i'll post a link below.
i used odin, put phone into download mode, connected with odin running as administrator.
selected the file i used in the AP button, (had to wait awhile for it to check md5, doesn't respond during that time)
it failed. so i pulled phone in battery and tried to turn on recovery, it sent me to the download screen and said the verizon update failed. tried to reinstall rom again. pulled battery. said same thing.
i reflashed the TWRP i was using with odin, doing the AP button with it too.
[[It will say failed on deviced and in odin]]
phone now boots up.
[btw the temp root i did was kingroot]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=12450
here is the original post for what i was doing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/note-4-verizon-bootloader-unlock-t3358913
the two walk throughs i found
1. http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/general/howto-converting-retail-note-4-to-t3358957
2. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152037/20160421/modder-unlocks-verizon-galaxy-note-4-bootloader-heres-how-to-do-it.htm
the stock recovery( reason for old version is because a few can update from this one)
http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_146187538272120&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=inkoi1eq01000n4o000DLb61t4tis&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fnote-4-verizon%2Fdevelopment%2Ffirmware-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-t2942937&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidfilehost.com%2F%3Ffid%3D24052804347793292&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&title=%5BFirmware%5D%20%5BOfficial%5D%20Firmware%20%2F%20Kernel%20%2F%20Mo%E2%80%A6%20%7C%20Verizon%20Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%204&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidfilehost.com%2F%3Ffid%3D24052804347793292
this is the main page to find the stock roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/development/firmware-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-t2942937
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I'm glad that you fixed it, but I just wanted to say what I think your problem was so that other people can fix it with a little less pain.
The bootloader unlock writes files to your sd card during the process. That's why the instructions state to use an SD card that you can set aside later. If you leave that SD card in the phone when you boot, you will bootloop. Simply removing the SD card and putting in another one will work. You can also remove the SD card, format it, and put it back in.
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I'm glad that you fixed it, but I just wanted to say what I think your problem was so that other people can fix it with a little less pain.
The bootloader unlock writes files to your sd card during the process. That's why the instructions state to use an SD card that you can set aside later. If you leave that SD card in the phone when you boot, you will bootloop. Simply removing the SD card and putting in another one will work. You can also remove the SD card, format it, and put it back in.
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Yeah I was thinkong about that. I had pulled the sd card right after due to boot loop. Think it had to do with the sd card. I messed a step up I believe there at the end.
Sorry for the late reply guys