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My 15 Y-O was using my old MT3GS while waiting on parts for her iPhone 3G. Once the parts came in and her phone was back working, she turned off the MT3GS. Two days later she dropped her phone and broke her digitizer. She went back to the MT3GS but it wouldn't start. Her sim card is good, she's now using our phone of last resort, an old Samsung feature phone.
When I opened the back to pull the battery I found the sim card tray unlocked. I fixed the sim tray, pulled the battery, waited a few minutes and put the battery back. On startup it vibrated once, but nothing else happened. I assumed the battery was drained, so I stuck in on the charger overnight. When I woke up, the battery light was green indicating a full charge, but it still does the one vibrate and then a whole lot of nothing.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Is the phone stock or rooted?
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It's stock, but I picked it up from eBay and I've replaced all of the external hardware. (Digitizer and outer shell)
I did pull the sticker off the original shell and move it to the new shell, but it's obvious to see.
A few questions, are you running the froyo update? Do you have the sdk installed? Are you willing to root/unlock the phone?
If the answer to all these questions is yes then you can try to root/unlock the phone, install a custom recovery, do the nessasary wipes and reinstall your rom or even a custom rom of your choice. I'm not sure if its a hardware issue. Doing the above doesn't work then I would say it is a hardware issue.
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Dvarl said:
A few questions, are you running the froyo update? Do you have the sdk installed? Are you willing to root/unlock the phone?
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I'm running 2.2 (but not the updated release in the past week). I should, I've rooted and installed a custom ROM on my MT4GS. And I'm more than willing to root / unlock this phone.
Dvarl said:
If the answer to all these questions is yes then you can try to root/unlock the phone, install a custom recovery, do the nessasary wipes and reinstall your rom or even a custom rom of your choice. I'm not sure if its a hardware issue. Doing the above doesn't work then I would say it is a hardware issue.
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Any suggestions on where to start?
I assume your on the 1.05 hboot? Check your hboot if it is you will need to unlock through htcdev.com. follow the instructions, and root that way. There is another thread on the forums that discuss this method. I did s-off early on so I won't be of much help with the official method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500700
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Dvarl said:
I assume your on the 1.05 hboot? Check your hboot if it is you will need to unlock through htcdev.com. follow the instructions, and root that way. There is another thread on the forums that discuss this method. I did s-off early on so I won't be of much help with the official method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500700
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I can't check my hboot, since the phone won't start.
Also Windows sees an empty removable disk.
ABD and FASTBOOT command shows no devices connected.
If adb and fastboot won't read the phone then I'm at a loss. Sorry I wish I could be more helpful.
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The same thing happens if you hold vol down + power? Just a single vibrate and a blank screen?
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I did some checking around and other people have had this problem too. Sounds like it is one of two things. A: it is a hardware issue. B: your yaffs partition got corrupted somehow. Neither of those can be fixed here. The phone would need to be serviced, but I would get a second opinion, I don't know all there is to know about the phone and I'm not a dev. You could try taking the phone in and have it looked at. The best of luck.
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So what happens when you hit power is a single vibrate and then nothing. The phone won't change, won't turn on and then won't do anything until you pull the battery.
Dvarl said:
The same thing happens if you hold vol down + power? Just a single vibrate and a blank screen?
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Interestingly enough, vol down and power does absolutely nothing. No vibrate, nothing. But after giving up, you can hit power to get the one vibrate....
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So I did a bit of thinking about this and wondered if the problem might be the LCD.
I pulled the battery
I hit vol down + power
I hit vol down again
I hit power
When I plugged it in via USB my PC recognized it and I was able to get the following from ADB.exe.
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
HT06WPS10312 offline​
So now I'm fairly well convinced that the phone may be ok and it's just the LCD that's dead. But I need some assistance with validating the phone is ok before I consider spending $20 - $30 for a replacement LCD.
I had a similiar problem that turn out to be a bad battery. Wouldnt hold a charge and wouldn't boot. Is this the oem battery?
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Hey guys, so recently the screen on my flo mysteriously cracked, and the touch screen is broken (does not respond to input, the digitizer is somehow broken). I had an otg cable and a mouse, so I've been able to backup my data through box.com. Now I was wondering if it was safe to wipe the tablet through settings, even though i have a custom recovery (On one of my old devices, this combination would cause a hard brick). I would do it through recovery, but i cant use the touchscreen. Thanks for any response.
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Hey guys, so recently the screen on my flo mysteriously cracked, and the touch screen is broken (does not respond to input, the digitizer is somehow broken). I had an otg cable and a mouse, so I've been able to backup my data through box.com. Now I was wondering if it was safe to wipe the tablet through settings, even though i have a custom recovery (On one of my old devices, this combination would cause a hard brick). I would do it through recovery, but i cant use the touchscreen. Thanks for any response.
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i would use Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit as you can wipe it completely and lock the bootloader this way its like the first day you bought it just in case they see some modding then can say it voids the return policy.
this way you can remove custom recovery also
me is new to all this maybe theres a better way let the pros answer this
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oh where did it crack as happened aswell to a friend he returned his last week in the uk
rocksyjj said:
i would use Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit as you can wipe it completely and lock the bootloader this way its like the first day you bought it just in case they see some modding then can say it voids the return policy.
this way you can remove custom recovery also
me is new to all this maybe theres a better way let the pros answer this
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oh where did it crack as happened aswell to a friend he returned his last week in the uk
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Thanks, I'll take a look at that. it cracked in the bottom left corner. It isn't even that big a crack, i don't understand why the whole display is dead.
Edit: Unfortunatly, I can't do that because I would need to verify adb from my pc, which I can't because the screen is broken
Va1ha1a said:
Thanks, I'll take a look at that. it cracked in the bottom left corner. It isn't even that big a crack, i don't understand why the whole display is dead.
Edit: Unfortunatly, I can't do that because I would need to verify adb from my pc, which I can't because the screen is broken
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I haven't tried on this device, but there were ways to "remote control" android devices over the USB cable that I used on past android devices when the screen was cracked.
You basically get a copy of the screen on your PC and use the mouse to control the tablet.
I forget the app but you can search or someone will chime in.
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Va1ha1a said:
Hey guys, so recently the screen on my flo mysteriously cracked, and the touch screen is broken (does not respond to input, the digitizer is somehow broken). I had an otg cable and a mouse, so I've been able to backup my data through box.com. Now I was wondering if it was safe to wipe the tablet through settings, even though i have a custom recovery (On one of my old devices, this combination would cause a hard brick). I would do it through recovery, but i cant use the touchscreen. Thanks for any response.
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If you boot into bootloader using the power+voldown combo, you can flash the factory images and after it reboots go back to bootloader and relock.
Doesn't require touchscreen as far as I can remember.
sfhub said:
I haven't tried on this device, but there were ways to "remote control" android devices over the USB cable that I used on past android devices when the screen was cracked.
You basically get a copy of the screen on your PC and use the mouse to control the tablet.
I forget the app but you can search or someone will chime in.
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If you boot into bootloader using the power+voldown combo, you can flash the factory images and after it reboots go back to bootloader and relock.
Doesn't require touchscreen as far as I can remember.
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Thanks for that, I've gotten all the data off of it, I just used an otg cable and a mouse. I'll have to download the factory images when I get home.
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Hey guys, I'm new to XDA so please forgive the noob post, I'm just trying to get my phone working again. I broke the screen and now the bottom half of my phone is unresponsive (capacitive keys don't work). I'm rooted with TWRP installed, stock 4.1.2. Everything was fine until my friend thought it would be funny to put a lockscreen on my phone. I am unable to rotate my lockscreen to 270 degrees (how i've been managing to use my device with the help of gravity box on screen navigation keys) and am now permanently locked out of my decice. I can't input the correct pin that he told me (6735) or even incorrectly five times to reset via google account because the "ok" button is located on the part of the screen that I can't click. I thought that hopefully I had left USB debugging on so that I could send an ADB command to unlock my phone but it won't even recognize my device when it's plugged in, meaning I must have unchecked USB debugging. On top of that, my phone is in charge only mode, with the option to switch to USB mass storage stuck behind the lock screen. So my problem is that I want to go into twrp recovery, created a nandroid backup then factory reset my device. But of course, TWRP doesn't rotate either. I can click most of the buttons, including Backup, wipe, etc, but can't actually execute any action because the "swipe to ..." is located on the bottom of the screen - where I can't click. I was wondering if anyone could somehow flip the TWRP program upside down so that I could use it.
I just realized that I don't know how I would get the new version of recovery on my device anyway, because I can't even connect my phone to the computer for it to recognize as mass storage... any suggestions, help, advice, anything! would be very very appreciated. Thanks.
PS - This is MY phone, not stolen, not picked up anywhere, I know my google account info, I know the phone number, I know most everything about it so if you need some sort of verification that it's mine, let me know. I would just like to be able to use my phone again. Thanks
Your friend is a jerk. I'd punch him in the face.
Can you access the side load option in twrp?
oohaylima said:
Your friend is a jerk. I'd punch him in the face.
Can you access the side load option in twrp?
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I can get to the "swipe to start sideload" screen but can't swipe because it's below the crack... :/
Could I just get a new digitizer, would that fix it?
Would be easier to get digitizer+LCD already put together. I screwed up a new screen on my evo because the LCD didn't get heated up enough to separate the glue. I do have the official service manual for the phone so if u want I can send u what it says to do to separate the LCD and digitizer if u don't want to pay the extra
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But yes a new digitizer would fix it
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AFschizoid said:
Would be easier to get digitizer+LCD already put together. I screwed up a new screen on my evo because the LCD didn't get heated up enough to separate the glue. I do have the official service manual for the phone so if u want I can send u what it says to do to separate the LCD and digitizer if u don't want to pay the extra
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But yes a new digitizer would fix it
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Any idea where I'd find it already put together?
I'll do some quick hunting, see if I can't find it
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/LCD-Display...34037?var=590205692373&_trksid=p2054897.l5658
Or can select different parts on that listing, for example. Just search google for touch digitizer LCD assembly ls970, that's what I did. There are other cheaper ones but that one is just plug it in, screw it back together and go, so...
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Hmm.....try fastboot, then load clockwork non-touch version through adb and see if that works.
oohaylima said:
Hmm.....try fastboot, then load clockwork non-touch version through adb and see if that works.
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I can't load anything through ADB because my phone won't connect to the computer - USB debugging is turned off. If I could use ADB I would just use an unlock command to remove the pin.
Thanks though.
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I can't load anything through ADB because my phone won't connect to the computer - USB debugging is turned off. If I could use ADB I would just use an unlock command to remove the pin.
Thanks though.
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That doesn't matter in fastboot. As long as you have the drivers for the o/s to read the device adb will pick it up. In windows 8 you have to install modified drivers for it to read it.
For some reason. My phone would not find my external memory card. So I decided to go into TWRP to (I believe its called format)
the card (lose everything on it)
Well. Both attempts failed, So I clicked on Reboot phone and now my phone will not turn on what so ever. Nothing will show up. If I plug it into a computer the computer will find it, but the phone screen will not show anything
Damn it all!!!!
Any ideas?
Can you flash stock firmware back?
did you change your DPI or mess with the build.prop?
just reread your post, if you can, reflash the stock rom since you can't turn it on.
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did you change your DPI or mess with the build.prop?
just reread your post, if you can, reflash the stock rom since you can't turn it on.
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yes to both
wellsey1126 said:
yes to both
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how do i do that without being able to turn it on
wellsey1126 said:
how do i do that without being able to turn it on
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how do i do it on a mac?
I was able to get to a PC. My issue is I cannot tell if the phone is in download mode. Again the phone doesn't turn on. But if I plug it to a computer. The computer does see it.
Lol
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http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
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Watch video and then do it
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Lol
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http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
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Watch video and then do it
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Not working. For some reasons anytime I donwload the drivers it say they are installed yet when I plug my phone in it says that I have to troubleshoot and its unable to find the drivers. (restarted pc etc)
Again when I hold the Vol up button and plug my phone in. You hear the computer find something, but the screen doesn't turn on what so ever. (Doesn't say download mode etc)
wellsey1126 said:
Not working. For some reasons anytime I donwload the drivers it say they are installed yet when I plug my phone in it says that I have to troubleshoot and its unable to find the drivers. (restarted pc etc)
Again when I hold the Vol up button and plug my phone in. You hear the computer find something, but the screen doesn't turn on what so ever. (Doesn't say download mode etc)
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So with a battery pull for 20 seconds you put battery in and hold power and down button you don't see anything
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BACARDILIMON said:
So with a battery pull for 20 seconds you put battery in and hold power and down button you don't see anything
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Nothing. Screen will not turn on
wellsey1126 said:
Nothing. Screen will not turn on
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Sorry bro time for a new one. Make the call and get exchange. Don't touch DPI..
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wellsey1126 said:
Nothing. Screen will not turn on
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OK cause I was bored I did what you did. My only thing is I removed my external SD card just in case. Added all the xposed junk most do and set my DPI at first to 530. Phone did not like. So went with 540 phone was OK so it seems. Went and installed no used SD card and went into recovery and did what u said u did. Phone went dark after tying reboot. DPI definitely was the issue. I am guess you had urs set to 530 or 540. Downloaded lg flashtool. Stock firmware. Pulled battery and what not when I hold power it would vib but no screen. Pulled battery held vol up as I plug in. Heard computer make noises and search for drivers. Opened lg tool and followed the rest of video . took a bit but phone is back to stock. Rerooted and flashed my backup all good. You sure you followed his video. Many people have used it and worked perfect.
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Did you change the dpi manually ?
Galaxysm said:
Did you change the dpi manually ?
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I changed it with app. He did say he changed build prop so I guessing yes.
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I changed it with app. He did say he changed build prop so I guessing yes.
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That's the problem. When changing dpi u need to use a app. A friend got into a bootloop for doing that. But he was able to fix it.
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That's the problem. When changing dpi u need to use a app. A friend got into a bootloop for doing that. But he was able to fix it.
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I agree but it still comes back he having the issue that screen is dead. Black. I think a lot more to this story
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BACARDILIMON said:
I agree but it still comes back he having the issue that screen is dead. Black. I think a lot more to this story
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Could be he wiped the entire phone?
Galaxysm said:
Could be he wiped the entire phone?
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Could be but either way with lg tool it loads it all back
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What would changing the DPI have to do with the phone not booting? Not saying anyone is wrong but I've had my share of phones and I've never heard of anything like that? I'm using 570 as my DPI with no issues at all. I've used both an app to change it and manually doing it. I'm definitely interested if that is actually what caused the issue.
Today I was in my car sitting in a parking lot, had my phone propped on my steering wheel with the txt app open when the screen when blue then shut down. I tried to power it on but it wouldn't come on, I pulled the battery hit the power button, the LG logo came up for a few seconds then shut off and the only way to turn it on again would be to pull the battery. Holding the power and volume rocker button down will turn it on to recovery. The phone is rooted so when I go to factory reset i've had 2 times it loaded to TWERP recovery but then the blue screen would come up again and I can't do anything. Most of the time it will end up in a green screen with the TC Crash, Demigod crash screen. Plugging it into my computer does load it as a device but I'm not able to access the phones storage. Has anyone ran into this issue and first question, is there anyway to recover data? Second question, is this a hardware related issue? I'm about to try and flash it back to stock since I can't get into TWERP but i'll wait for a response before I do that.
I tried to boot to download mode, I hold the volume up rocker and then plug in a USB, it shows download mode icon for a quick second but the screen goes black. I tried the LG flash tool but it doesn't get past step 1. Any one have any ideas i'm fresh out. Only new thing to report is sometimes instead of the green TZ crash i'm getting an orange RMP crash screen but with the same options as the green screen.
Need to know know a little more before I can reach my decision on where to start.
ROM
Kernel
Thermal mods
Was the phone hot?
Does it get hot upon starting?
Baseband?
I had this happen before but never to the extent that your explaining. Kind of sounds like a kernel panic.
DroidsOnRoids said:
Need to know know a little more before I can reach my decision on where to start.
ROM
Kernel
Thermal mods
Was the phone hot?
Does it get hot upon starting?
Baseband?
I had this happen before but never to the extent that your explaining. Kind of sounds like a kernel panic.
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I can tell you what ROM it was and thats about it. Resurrection-Remix-LP-v5.5.8-20151027-vs985
Was running sold for months. Phone wasn't hot and didn't notice it getting hot at start up. Phone had 99% battery last time I checked before the blue screen.
I did some research about the LG G3 and blue screen and its a common issue from what i've found. No fix really
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359 u could try this
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359 u could try this
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WOW, not sure about that. I'll see. Going to call verizon and see if they can do anything first.
Youll have to pay cause ure waranty is voided being rooted its a sure fire fix for almost all hard bricks and everything its not as bad as it looks i have had to myself on my g2 and g3
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Do u get the screen press up for dl mode. Try a bat pull and boot into recovery if possible
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Youll have to pay cause ure waranty is voided being rooted its a sure fire fix for almost all hard bricks and everything its not as bad as it looks i have had to myself on my g2 and g3
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Are you sure its a hard brick? From all the things i've read about this blue screen is its a hardware issue. My phone is showing up in the device manager under ports. Can I skip the first part?
Itsna kernal panick some people claim its from over heat others other issues if ure phonenshows up as qusb bulk or something like that then i believe u can the pin groung is to reset it to get it into bulk mode so from there u reflash all the primary gtp partitions then u can get to download mode to restore using stock tot. Ive nevernhad this issue happen but no its not technicly a hard brick but so far i cant find a solution but the method ive shown u usaully brings back all bricks and issues it could be a hardware issue but 9 outa 10 times its a software or firmware issue
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If u got usbbulk mode on com ports not step 4 but num 4 further down the page is where u start but u have to dl wilcracker and ure stock tot file
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Itsna kernal panick some people claim its from over heat others other issues if ure phonenshows up as qusb bulk or something like that then i believe u can the pin groung is to reset it to get it into bulk mode so from there u reflash all the primary gtp partitions then u can get to download mode to restore using stock tot. Ive nevernhad this issue happen but no its not technicly a hard brick but so far i cant find a solution but the method ive shown u usaully brings back all bricks and issues it could be a hardware issue but 9 outa 10 times its a software or firmware issue
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If u got usbbulk mode on com ports not step 4 but num 4 further down the page is where u start but u have to dl wilcracker and ure stock tot file
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OK thanks. I mean I guess I don't have anything to loose, so i'll give it a shot.
Like i said i couldnt find a solution im no developer ive just been rooting and modding since the first og moto droid ive bricked and fixed a lot of phones this may not be the proper solution i just no its work for a lot of people on a lot of diffrent bricks on both g2 and g3 i know basicly the g2 is unbri kable and sofar so has the g3 since this i wish it was a general sticky
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You can try calling lg but i consider there tecks dumber the crap but they get paid for what they do again 9 outa 10 times they cant help other than u sending it in for repair like i said ure rooted if they find out it is its fixed on ure dime i dont know no cell company has ever helped me out.
What do kind of wire do you suggest using?
I used acouple strands of speaker wire coiled up and a pair of tweezers to hold it end bent it to touch both so i still had a free hand
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I used acouple strands of speaker wire coiled up and a pair of tweezers to hold it end bent it to touch both so i still had a free hand
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This is impossible!
joel71 said:
This is impossible!
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When u plug into ure pc what ports or coms. What xoez the fone shop up az
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When u plug into ure pc what ports or coms. What xoez the fone shop up az
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After trying for what felt like forever I got it kind of work once. It showed up as QCBATCH on port 6. But once I broke connection it went away and I wasn't able to get it to work again. I'll give it another try sometime today..
Sometimes it takes a bunch of trys
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Sometimes it takes a bunch of trys
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Got it working on the first try today. I used the SIM Card bay for a ground so I didn't have to hold it. Much easier, flashing now, will report back after.
joel71 said:
Got it working on the first try today. I used the SIM Card bay for a ground so I didn't have to hold it. Much easier, flashing now, will report back after.
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Let me no how it goes
I did the steps but it still booted to a RPM CRASH screen, I couldn't get into download mode. I'm trying to flash Cache, System, Userdata, and SB1 now.