So yesterday I traded my Nexus 7 tablet for a LG Optimus G. I rooted it, unlocked bootloader using a .jar software the trader provided me. Everything went well, but since I have no internet on my old Dell running XP, I had to use other means to flash TWRP recovery. Something didn't go right and my phone was bricked. So the guy I traded with was nice enough to come all the way back to me, and give me a KDZ file he found on the internet to restore it using the KDZ Firmware Update from LG. Took me a while to work it but it fixed my phone, only issue now is the software version in Software Information is now E97310f and won't let me update. It used to be LS970 so on ZVB. All my Sprint apps are missing, each time I restart the phone it says Unfortunately software update has stopped. In general, I'm guessing this was not for a Sprint LGOG.
Any ideas on how I can return it back to normal? I plan on connecting it with Sprint and want it to have their crappy bloatware.
Crossvxm said:
So yesterday I traded my Nexus 7 tablet for a LG Optimus G. I rooted it, unlocked bootloader using a .jar software the trader provided me. Everything went well, but since I have no internet on my old Dell running XP, I had to use other means to flash TWRP recovery. Something didn't go right and my phone was bricked. So the guy I traded with was nice enough to come all the way back to me, and give me a KDZ file he found on the internet to restore it using the KDZ Firmware Update from LG. Took me a while to work it but it fixed my phone, only issue now is the software version in Software Information is now E97310f and won't let me update. It used to be LS970 so on ZVB. All my Sprint apps are missing, each time I restart the phone it says Unfortunately software update has stopped. In general, I'm guessing this was not for a Sprint LGOG.
Any ideas on how I can return it back to normal? I plan on connecting it with Sprint and want it to have their crappy bloatware.
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Go to this thread. It'll have all the info you need. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Kdz doesn't work for us, for the most part.
Edit. Ooops. LGNPST is what you're looking for.
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engine95 said:
Go to this thread. It'll have all the info you need. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43983721
Kdz doesn't work for us, for the most part.
Edit. Ooops. LGNPST is what you're looking for.
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Following the thread you provided, I assume this is the one I want: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40169203&postcount=1&nocache=1&z=7118741415906698
I'll try using it, but have no idea how it will revert me back to my LS970 ZVB version directly from E97310f
no good
Nothing there could really help me. And now that I'm considered a E973, drivers are a whole different story, fastboot mode seems to no longer exist, all I can do is get into some sort of useless recovery mode. This is a nightmare. This stock version is bad in performance. I feel like the device is clocked at 1.2 instead of its meant to be 1.5. What the heck am I to do?
Crossvxm said:
Nothing there could really help me. And now that I'm considered a E973, drivers are a whole different story, fastboot mode seems to no longer exist, all I can do is get into some sort of useless recovery mode. This is a nightmare. This stock version is bad in performance. I feel like the device is clocked at 1.2 instead of its meant to be 1.5. What the heck am I to do?
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This recovery you have, is it blue? Also another option is to go on the irc. It's in that same thread as my first post.
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This recovery you have, is it blue? Also another option is to go on the irc. It's in that same thread as my first post.
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Also go here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2347449
This person had the same problem as you.
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This recovery you have, is it blue? Also another option is to go on the irc. It's in that same thread as my first post.
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Also go here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2347449
This person had the same problem as you.
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I'm going with that, but I have never used the LGNPST so I'm a bit stuck. I downloaded a .bin from there, grabbed the LGNPST software from a different site, and now I'm trying to figure out how to combine the two. And the recovery screen isn't like the regular "use the volume and power button" recovery, its just a white window with a two arrows making a circle type recovery that they call "Recovery Mode" and has no particular function other than to hold power for 8 seconds to reboot normally.
Okay so I figured out how to use LGNPST but I seemed to have flashed some other type of incorrect object. The bin I used made my LGOG boot up with the same fast boot and TWRP recovery as my Nexus 7 had. Aka the boot is now Google with the unlocked symbol beneath. Now when I try to flash the old incorrect KDZ file from the E97310f, no good. So my problem went from OK to just plain worse. I'm looking to find the correct teenybin necessary in order to then try to flash the ZV8's ZDK file. Now my device is really bricked with a TWRP and a locked boot loader. Isn't that sweet (sarcastically)
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Also forgot to mention each time I use LGNPST the device boots at 67% leaving the rest incomplete, then shoots up to 85%. Perhaps its why the KDZ no longer works. I'm guessing using LGNPST was bad from the beginning. Should've stuck to finding the original KDZ instead.
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Also forgot to mention each time I use LGNPST the device boots at 67% leaving the rest incomplete, then shoots up to 85%. Perhaps its why the KDZ no longer works. I'm guessing using LGNPST was bad from the beginning. Should've stuck to finding the original KDZ instead.
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That's just what lgnpst does. You should not be using a kdz. You should be using either zv9.bin or zvb.bin. if you're going to use Sprint. The bins are in the same place I led you to for lgnpst.
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Well you were quite right in a way! Thanks! This will sound crazy, but I used the LGNPST to flash the alternative LS970 bin provided. It gave the fast boot mode, Google boot, and TWRP 2.5, unlike the last one I mentioned that wouldn't let me use the ZDK file. So what I did was I tried pulling the same trick used to push a zip file to my Nexus 7 when I accidentally wiped everything. It was a bit of a crazy stunt, but I used the Nexus 7 Toolkit 5 to push a custom ROM I downloaded here on XDA thru TWRP. I had tried before on the last bin I flashed and no good. Tried again and it actually pushed the file. From there I used TWRP to install the zip and well here I am writing this from my new ROM. The info shows LS970. The XDA app as well as you can see below. Had to reroot it using the ZV9/ZVB Universal Root as GIAO would said my device is unsupported. Not quite sure if the boot loader is unlocked though. I'll probably stop messing with this thing here before I make it any worse. Thanks alot
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GAIO is outdated, but a least you're rooted. And unlocked too if you were able to flash a ROM. It sounds like you used a teeny bin to get going. Not zv9 or zvb.bin. You should be good to go.
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Yeah it was all working perfectly, until yesterday where I turned it off last night as I've done each night since fixed, but this morning, no boot. Now no matter how many different roms I try to flash from it's SD card, or which different teenybin I flash, it won't fix the situation. Im guessing it's a security issue, although I did nothing really to provoke it. Any idea how to fix it or completely format everything including TWRP and the fastboot altogether?
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Actually, never mind...the thing randomly decided to boot after deleting some files thru TEEPee. Coincidence is that yesterday I downloaded FreeGee, it didn't detect my device as a LS970, and it left behind a file. When I recalled that thought and deleted the file, ta da. Works fine....
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So I have been helping a friend get rooted, unlocked and flashing. This is the same friend whose phone decided to croak midway through flashing lifeless a couple of weeks ago, sending him to the exciting boot loop scenario.
We used LGNPST, removed the battery, got him back up, rooted and unlocked (he is on ZV9), we get into TWRP, flash Imperium this time, all appears to go well and Imperium starts to boot. It gets through the first few screens of the boot and then shuts off again. Bootloop.
Is this potentially a partition issue? Is it some flaw in the FreeGee unlock method?
We are confused and would really appreciate any assistance anyone could provide.
This might not help, but it's something I'm starting to wonder about our phones.
Was the phone fully, or at least mostly, charged?
I'm asking because it seems most of these problems are happening to newer phones that don't have a good set of battery stats.
My only suggestion is if you can get into recovery or download mode, either restore a backup or LGNPST again.
Edit. FreeGee shouldn't be the issue, because you installed Imperium
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This might not help, but it's something I'm starting to wonder about our phones.
Was the phone fully, or at least mostly, charged?
I'm asking because it seems most of these problems are happening to newer phones that don't have a good set of battery stats.
My only suggestion is if you can get into recovery or download mode, either restore a backup or LGNPST again.
Edit. FreeGee shouldn't be the issue, because you installed Imperium
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97% charge at the start of the flash.
Last time the charge was fairly low, and that's what we assumed the issue was.,
So can you get into recovery? Hopefully you made a backup. Download mode?
Or did you get it fixed, and are just asking if partition could be the problem.
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So can you get into recovery? Hopefully you made a backup. Download mode?
Or did you get it fixed, and are just asking if partition could be the problem.
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Download mode is a yes. Backup was made, I have to LGNPST tonight, but I cannot understand what was done wrong. It's the third unique phone that I have rooted and flashed on including my own and the only variable here is that we rooted from ZV9 on his phone, ZV8 on the other two. The other two remain rooted, one running Lifeless v.11 and the other running Imperium.
So to answer your question, yes, I am curious if maybe the error in the flashing of the rom is occurring due to something jacked up in his partitions.
I've noticed you haven't had the best of luck with LGOG's.
Others in the know could probably answer better, but I don't think you can mess up a partition by flashing ROMs. But even if it did, LGNPST should fix it.
Did you try to restore your backup?
We do have a finicky phone with these LG's. I know some people have had to LGNPST their phone 3 times to get root to take. For whatever reasons.
I know I'm not helping much, but I'm trying.
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I think the issue here is that he is on ZV9. I had the same issue on both me and my wifes LGOG's until I did a LNGPST back to ZV8 and rooted with no issues at all.
engine95 said:
I've noticed you haven't had the best of luck with LGOG's.
Others in the know could probably answer better, but I don't think you can mess up a partition by flashing ROMs. But even if it did, LGNPST should fix it.
Did you try to restore your backup?
We do have a finicky phone with these LG's. I know some people have had to LGNPST their phone 3 times to get root to take. For whatever reasons.
I know I'm not helping much, but I'm trying.
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So a hardware reset did the trick, no LGNPST. Popped it open, disconnected battery and imperium fired right up.
And for the record, I have had great luck with the OG. My friend and wife have had all the bad luck.
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Have my dreams finally come true and I can quit trying to use that bootleg LGNPST?? Downloading now!
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Got my hopes up too soon...
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Yea!
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Yea!
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This is a system dump, don't try flashing this.
^^^What he said ^^^
I was pretty tired when I posted it and forgot to mention that it's for devs to build ROM from.
Can't wait! Thanks Loki!
downloading now to play around with. Will see if I can get a flashable rom off of it. A few have tried already to no avail though.
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downloading now to play around with. Will see if I can get a flashable rom off of it. A few have tried already to no avail though.
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Whoever is working on the flashable zip, can they please PM, I want to try to make one, but if the people doing it are already good to go and there is no point in me doing then I don't want to waste my time lol
oh yeah ...im all over this! Time to get ot work
thanks buddy
also for anyone looking to get this going.... make sure you rip out the recovery.img and modify updater if its in there. otherwise you will be in fastboot heaven reflashing TWRP
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Whoever is working on the flashable zip, can they please PM, I want to try to make one, but if the people doing it are already good to go and there is no point in me doing then I don't want to waste my time lol
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Make a thread and ill help you.
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jokersax11 said:
Make a thread and ill help you.
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Pm sent
What is Optimus Prime's full name?
Optimus G. Prime
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I must be missing some screws cuz I can't get the system tar to extract. Any help?
What is Optimus Prime's full name?
Optimus G. Prime
sharkboy0901 said:
I must be missing some screws cuz I can't get the system tar to extract. Any help?
What is Optimus Prime's full name?
Optimus G. Prime
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thats what im having a problem with also. Im running Ubuntu 12.04, What OS you runnin?
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Evolutionmods said:
thats what im having a problem with also. Im running Ubuntu 12.04, What OS you runnin?
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Exact same one if you dual booting it works in windows with winrar(I think)
What is Optimus Prime's full name?
Optimus G. Prime
I use 7Zip on all my work.
Lokifish Marz said:
tar.gz of system folder (su preinstalled and updated to busybox 1.21.0)
boot img
radio img
recovery img
original install script
Download links
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Bump. I am looking for just boot and recovery. Any chance you can repost them? (link broken) (I'm actually on ZVC but I don't think there were any changes)
Thanks!
dwielunski said:
Bump. I am looking for just boot and recovery. Any chance you can repost them? (link broken) (I'm actually on ZVC but I don't think there were any changes)
Thanks!
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Just use these. Your phone will upgrade to it anyway. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536636
But I think for your purpose, use LGNPST with the zvc bin. You'll find the link to the bin in the root guide.
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engine95 said:
Just use these. Your phone will upgrade to it anyway. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2536636
But I think for your purpose, use LGNPST with the zvc bin. You'll find the link to the bin in the root guide.
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Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. The stock rooted ZVC is what I'm already running (flashed from CWM with an unlocked bootloader). There's a bug where you try to charge when the phone is completely turned off, the screen turns on draining battery and preventing you from charging at full speed. I understand this could be fixed by a) flashing an AOSP-based ROM or b) if you want to use stock rooted, stick with the original bootloader/recovery. So, I'm trying to figure out if I can just flash boot.img and recovery.img on top of the stock rooted ZVC, and get the charging to work properly.
I found what I thought I needed in shelnutt's files-- he has the Sprint backup img's. But when I dd'd them over, my phone won't boot now. So I will probably have to LGNPST the whole zvc bin and start over. Oh well.
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Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. The stock rooted ZVC is what I'm already running (flashed from CWM with an unlocked bootloader). There's a bug where you try to charge when the phone is completely turned off, the screen turns on draining battery and preventing you from charging at full speed. I understand this could be fixed by a) flashing an AOSP-based ROM or b) if you want to use stock rooted, stick with the original bootloader/recovery. So, I'm trying to figure out if I can just flash boot.img and recovery.img on top of the stock rooted ZVC, and get the charging to work properly.
I found what I thought I needed in shelnutt's files-- he has the Sprint backup img's. But when I dd'd them over, my phone won't boot now. So I will probably have to LGNPST the whole zvc bin and start over. Oh well.
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You can root your phone, but you can't flash ANY ROM unless you unlock the booloader/recovery.
If restoring FreeGee unlock didn't work for you then you need to use LGNPST to get stock recovery back. It should also fix your charging issue.
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engine95 said:
You can root your phone, but you can't flash ANY ROM unless you unlock the booloader/recovery.
If restoring FreeGee unlock didn't work for you then you need to use LGNPST to get stock recovery back. It should also fix your charging issue.
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Flashed the whole ZVC bin with LGNPST, rerooted and got what I wanted. I didn't lose data or have to start from scratch like I was afraid of, and it's easy enough to unlock with freegee if I ever want to flash roms again in the future. Thanks for your help/encouragement.
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Hi I am sorry if I sound new/n00b or completely dense.
This is my first android handset so please bear with me. I have an LG E980 from At&T and it was on 4.1.2 and I rooted it. I then installed CWM and a few other things I found on here after browsing for a few days. I currently am on the CM10.2 build and it is not good for signal at all. I keep losing LTE and it goes in and out.
So I want to unroot my phone and just restore to the original Rom that would have come with it. I have done multiple attempts at doing so.
I used the rom found here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272177
As well as I have tried to use this one as well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2361928
Neither work. I leave the name of the zip file as is and drag and drop it into the following folder clockworkmod/backup
when i boot into recovery i select the correct file and try to install it and to no avail. I keep getting install aborted or failed.
I was told to use Windows and the LG Suite? I am using a Mac. I install Windows and went about that way but the program kept freezing everytime. It was starting at the download process part and just sat there. I left it alone for almost 2 hours and it did nothing. I am getting very frustrated now. Does anyone have any idea what I can do short of just selling this phone and going back to crApple ifone?
If you can help me get this fixed I would be very happy! Any other information about the phone I can give you let me know!
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Just to know, when you were on 10.2, did you flash the AT&T modem again?
If you are still on it, you might try that first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302660
You have to return to stock using LG flash tool
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Once you flash cm10 you can't just flash back using recovery
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LG PC Suite says I already have most current version...
Hey everything seems to be going fine with flash tool until it comes time to load the stock rom. It says my current software is up to date and won't let me change firware. Suggestions?
Hi there, yesterday I was trying to flash carbon onto my E980 and it kept saying it failed, so I re-read the installation guide and it had said to wipe everything from the phone and i guess my stupidity struck... I decided that I should wipe clean my phone, data and all.. Originally I had a backup of the stock rom just rooted and i forgot to transfer that to my external. SOOO now I'm kinda stuck with no OS and unable to flash any roms.. I was wondering if anyone out there had a TWRP backup of their stock ROM that I could potentially restore through the Recovery. I tried using the LG Flashtool to try and flash the stock ROM back on but all it did was stay at Ready!! even after I plugged in my phone.
Keep trying with the flash tool. Sometimes you need to unplug the phone a couple of times. Sometimes once. This will be you best option.
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Keep trying with the flash tool. Sometimes you need to unplug the phone a couple of times. Sometimes once. This will be you best option.
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Question though, am I supposed to get the LG USB/Parallel Lock Key is not detected error when i try to load up the LG flashtool 1.5?
When you extract LGFlashtools there should be two dll files. change the name of the csmg_reg_key.dll to csmg_reg_key.bak
When I did that, I was able to use the megalock.dll that loads the tool. Also don't forget to change the date to prior of August 2012 and be off the internet. Follow the instructions provided in the OP of the LGFlashtool link. I didn't provide it here because I assume you do have it or we wouldn't be doing this.
Ok ill try it again after I get off work, hopefully I can get it back to stock
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When you extract LGFlashtools there should be two dll files. change the name of the csmg_reg_key.dll to csmg_reg_key.bak
When I did that, I was able to use the megalock.dll that loads the tool. Also don't forget to change the date to prior of August 2012 and be off the internet. Follow the instructions provided in the OP of the LGFlashtool link. I didn't provide it here because I assume you do have it or we wouldn't be doing this.
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OK so, after i changed the csmg_reg_key.dll to csmg_reg_key.bak i got an error on the flashtool that said "The DLL for Authentication is not found!!" and flashtool doesnt load up.. I did download the flashtool from the OP's mirror so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it but unfortunately its still not working...
Did you extract the dll from this link to that folder?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272177
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Okay so I extracted everything in the LG Flashtool rar file into my C:\LG\LGFlashTool folder along with whatever installed from the setup file, i got it to load without giving me the usb error and what not. Now I tried to flash it again, but it just stays at Ready!! and nothing else.... I've even let it sit for a long time in hopes for it to pick up the phones plugged in and start flashing but nothing at all. Am I doomed with no way to go back to stock? Not gonna lie... even though I finally got the phone to flash to CyanogenMod 10.2, i still miss the stock features of the phone.
You might need to unplug and plug the phone in, wait for a few seconds, and If that doesn't work, do it again. Sometimes several times. Make sure you have the drivers installed and you change the the date. You're getting closer.
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I've searched all over, but haven't found anything specific to this. I have a rooted e980 with a stock rom and CWM. It's been running great for a couple of months. I woke up this morning and it was on the CWM start screen. I figured it reset overnight and somehow got there. Anyway, I can't get it out of CWM. I've rebooted, battery pulled, and even restored several backups I had. They all complete successfully, then the phone reboots and goes right back into CWM. I even went and installed an old backup of a Carbon ROM I had, and it does the same thing: stays in CWM.
Any ideas? I don't want to keep screwing with it and really brick it.
I had the same thing happen to me as well...I tried restores...factory resets and nothing would work...the only option I had was to return stock using lg flash tools...you will lose everything on the internal sd...but the phone was up and running in about fifteen minutes...reroot...install cwm... after that I store everything on the external sd including my cwm backups... hope this helps...
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I had the same thing happen to me as well...I tried restores...factory resets and nothing would work...the only option I had was to return stock using lg flash tools...you will lose everything on the internal sd...but the phone was up and running in about fifteen minutes...reroot...install cwm... after that I store everything on the external sd including my cwm backups... hope this helps...
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Thanks. Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to have to do. Did you already have a copy of the stock rom? I'm downloading it now and it's taking forever...
I used this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302660 and this latest stock tot file from this post ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2361928 it works perfectly...
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MythicBlue said:
I used this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302660 and this latest stock tot file from this post ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2361928 it works perfectly...
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It worked! Thanks! However, I had to use that same TOT file you linked. The I downloaded the stock rom 3 times and none of them worked, the extracted TOT did though. For future readers of this, some observations:
I used the TOT linked above by MythicBlue
The first time I tried flashing with the LG Flash Tool, it failed at 31 seconds, so I tried again and...
It failed again at the very end, however my phone was already fixed and rebooted, so you may need to try it again.
In the lg flash tool, check the box that lets you manually add the .dll file
the box directly beneath it is for the TOT file.
I hope my frustrating Saturday might help someone else.
My e980 did the same thing, had to use lg flash tools to get back to stock.
Anybody know what caused our phones to do this?