Out of nowhere my phone wouldn't boot past the boot animation. Being I wasn't sure what caused this (haven't done anything to the phone lately) I figured I would just restore the phone from a recent CWM recovery backup. This didn't work and I got some odd message about the secure img something not being found.
I don't have access to a computer right now where I can use the LG flash tool. Does anyone have a clean and rooted stock CWM I could use for my restore?
quailallstar said:
Out of nowhere my phone wouldn't boot past the boot animation. Being I wasn't sure what caused this (haven't done anything to the phone lately) I figured I would just restore the phone from a recent CWM recovery backup. This didn't work and I got some odd message about the secure img something not being found.
I don't have access to a computer right now where I can use the LG flash tool. Does anyone have a clean and rooted stock CWM I could use for my restore?
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I have one, but I don't know how long it will take to upload. I'll update the thread when I know.
donalgodon said:
I have one, but I don't know how long it will take to upload. I'll update the thread when I know.
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Thanks for chiming in! I'm using my LG L9 as a backup phone for now. Would you have a clue as to why my backups wont restore? Awaiting your upload when its up.
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I have one, but I don't know how long it will take to upload. I'll update the thread when I know.
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Did you have any luck uploading that CWM backup?
I would also be interested in this backup. If you don't mind, I mean
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i need one bad myself!!!b twrp or cmw
So...just checking,but was this ever uploaded?
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ive got a stock e980 restore zip whats a good file host for large files ? and ill start uploading it ....
uploading now will post link shortly.....
Looks like houstonn, an awesome dev for the AT&T LGOG, made a stock, deodexed, flashable zip a while back. Not sure if it works, but it's worth a shot.
All credits go to houstonn
http://downloads.codefi.re/houstonn/lgog_pro
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Neroga said:
Looks like houstonn, an awesome dev for the AT&T LGOG, made a stock, deodexed, flashable zip a while back. Not sure if it works, but it's worth a shot.
All credits go to houstonn
http://downloads.codefi.re/houstonn/lgog_pro
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Thanks for the link (it's the only one I've found working in this forum) but unfortunately, it seems to be just a raw system dump from an f240.
If I can get a system dump from an e980, I can make it flashable easily enough. Anyone?
if someone wants to help me out I'm willing to do a cwm backup for you guys and I can upload it to my own server. I rooted and used freegee to install cwm and right now I'm running slimbean. I have a backup of my stock rom but with all my stuff still on it, so should I just do a factory reset within android then wipe data, cache & dalvik in cwm? then do the backup?
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if someone wants to help me out I'm willing to do a cwm backup for you guys and I can upload it to my own server. I rooted and used freegee to install cwm and right now I'm running slimbean. I have a backup of my stock rom but with all my stuff still on it, so should I just do a factory reset within android then wipe data, cache & dalvik in cwm? then do the backup?
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Yes that would be awesome. If you can provide the backup files I can take care of making it flashable. I'll need the boot image and system image.
I have a e980 bone stock rooted CWM backup I have tried to upload it on two different sight to share but it keeps failing or stalling out.... any suggestions for a good fast sight to upload to?
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You could always try dropbox or Google drive
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I'm uploading to media fire now been uploading for about 45 minutes says it has 2-1/2 hours left...
Would drop box or Google drive be any faster?
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not sure how fast my hosts upload is but here is an account you can upload to.. don't abuse it.
host: eddiek.net
username: [email protected]
password: kl.Tx8hH0hQ^
deadenz said:
not sure how fast my hosts upload is but here is an account you can upload to.. don't abuse it.
host: eddiek.net
username: [email protected]
password: kl.Tx8hH0hQ^
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I'll start uploading now....
How do I upload it?
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esimon311 said:
I'll start uploading now....
How do I upload it?
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if you use firefox download the fireftp extension.. or you can download filezilla
then google "upload file with fireftp/filezilla"
Any progress on this? Been wanting to go back to pure e980 stock to see if this cursed no call audio is cured when coming from bone stock
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bor3d2damax said:
Any progress on this? Been wanting to go back to pure e980 stock to see if this cursed no call audio is cured when coming from bone stock
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You may want to try to start over with the lgflash tools. That's a weird problem, but then again, my phone has partitioned off a part of my external sd card so I can't use any of those files that were there unless I look at it from CWM. TWRP doesn't even recognize those files...
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Whenever I try to make a backup through cwm its stops after about a minute and says canot gind a backup handler.
Any idea what that is? Im on jedi v2. But its the same with any other rom I flash
mryounghc said:
Whenever I try to make a backup through cwm its stops after about a minute and says canot gind a backup handler.
Any idea what that is? Im on jedi v2. But its the same with any other rom I flash
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Backups were glitchy for me on cwm. I switched to TWRP and there's no looking back for me.
Im going to try twrp and see how it works. Thanks
I'm on cwm and backups have been fine. Why don't you redownload cwm and make sure you rwflash your appropriate recovery. I've NEVER had problems with cwm unless I messed with the folder or something.
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Another vote to just switch to twrp. It is superior in every way.
Idyar said:
Another vote to just switch to twrp. It is superior in every way.
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Nothing against twrp but what's the point of troubleshooting if you're not going g to troubleshoot? If someone really likes a particular recovery why not help them get it working instead of making the decision for them?
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I'm on cwm and backups have been fine. Why don't you redownload cwm and make sure you rwflash your appropriate recovery. I've NEVER had problems with cwm unless I messed with the folder or something.
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i think this is what happened. actually i am pretty sure that is what i did when i was messing around with some files.
im going to try to find cwm again and reflash
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Nothing against twrp but what's the point of troubleshooting if you're not going g to troubleshoot? If someone really likes a particular recovery why not help them get it working instead of making the decision for them?
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yea, twrp works but i do prefer cwm as i have never had an issue with it since i got the vibrant.
thanks guys
To add another option; did you make your backup to .tar format? That was my issue when I first rooted my phone, couldn't restore anything, kinda panicked...
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I was just wondering if it was possible to make a .zip file to restore our phones to Factory fresh-ish?
Heres my thinking: If we did a Factory Reset from the phone that wipes everything, sd included, then boot into CWM or TWRP Recovery because it would still be there, I believe, wipe everything in Recovery, then install the .zip? The .zip would have Root, CWM or TWRP Recovery and all the stock files.
Question is...Would this allow us to not have to use LGNPST? Or would there still be files stuck that would make us use LGNPST?[/SIZE]
Hope that all makes sense.
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I was just wondering if it was possible to make a .zip file to restore our phones to Factory fresh-ish?
Heres my thinking: If we did a Factory Reset from the phone that wipes everything, sd included, then boot into CWM or TWRP Recovery because it would still be there, I believe, wipe everything in Recovery, then install the .zip? The .zip would have Root, CWM or TWRP Recovery and all the stock files.
Question is...Would this allow us to not have to use LGNPST? Or would there still be files stuck that would make us use LGNPST?[/SIZE]
Hope that all makes sense.
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That would be nice. But I can't imagine it to be more useful that lgnpst. Think of it like Odin for the Samsung phones.
True. But Odin is simple and easy to get. Im just trying to think of an easier way to fix our phones when we mess em up.
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True. But Odin is simple and easy to get. Im just trying to think of an easier way to fix our phones when we mess em up.
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Simpler way will definitely be appreciated lol
Its being worked on. Only one bug bug atm, check back tomorrow.
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Its now available under development
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Its now available under development
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Awesome thanks!
Its not quite what i mean. But this will do. I guess i can't quite put it into words.
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engine95 said:
Its not quite what i mean. But this will do. I guess i can't quite put it into words.
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Under recovery just wipe system/cache and dalvik cache.
All was wiped but the sd card part. was still there. Was that what you meant?
My idea or thought in the OP was to make something as available as Odin that could fix borked phones. LGNPST isn't as readily available. I think the stock v8 .zip is as close as we can get. It was a thought.
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But, arent ZIPs useless if the phone is really bricked and cant even boot into recovery? Isnt that the advantage LGNPST has?
Unless it was an update.zip like factory recovery. I don't think what im thinking can be done.
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Does anyone know if it is possible to downgrade from LK8 to LJC?
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yes it is
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yes it is
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Do you know how to do it?
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Okay go here -http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyNote2/SPH-L900- and download these 2 files.
One is a Sprint LJ1 stock rom. (Flash through Odin on PC)
The 2nd is the flashable zip of LJ1 to LJC (do it though TWRP or CWM)
Make sure to make a backup of your apps and data because it does a restore.
There you go
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wierd that someone would send you to another site to DL files, files that you can get here with actual instructions on how to use them. (really? ODIN one thing, then CWM another? Just to get stock? smh)
and then for a person to send you to do this without mentioning the HFA errors and Chameloen FCs that you get from reverting to an earlier ROM from the LK8 leak, and how to fix that.
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kingdazy said:
wierd that someone would send you to another site to DL files, files that you can get here with actual instructions on how to use them. (really? ODIN one thing, then CWM another? Just to get stock? smh)
and then for a person to send you to do this without mentioning the HFA errors and Chameloen FCs that you get from reverting to an earlier ROM from the LK8 leak, and how to fix that.
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There's a fix for those errors right?
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there is, sorry i can't get you to it at the moment. half asleep, and can't find the thread.
look for garwynn/EvilKoncepts fix around here... and a guy named billards in the dev section, i think he did this as well.
good luck!
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Thanks for the help guys.
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I was just mentioning the easiest way
If theyve used roms and such on their phone they would know exactly how to do what I described.
Pretty easy stuff.
Did it like 2 days ago. Lol.
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I am including a version of Billard's TWRP, (original thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769) to make it easier for you to revert to LJC. What I do, coming from LK8, is the usual prescribed wipes, before flashing any rom, but I also wipe with the new Carrier button under the wipe menu. When you first boot the new rom, it will rebuild the wiped carrier partition automatically and reboot. Once rebooted, the Handsfree Activation will begin, and the Chameleon errors will no longer be a problem.
This recovery is a godsend.
If you want to go back to any other recovery afterwards, just ODIN your chosen recovery, or flash one, whichever format of recovery you downloaded. I usually just download Goo Manager from the Play store, and install the official TWRP from OpenRecovery Script.
This is a recovery zip file you can flash with the recovery you have now.
Hope this helps, and Billard, I could not find a link to your recovery (found it!! Updated to your original link now). If there's a problem with me sharing your recovery, let me know!
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=2472 << chose the one with carrier wipe!
As always, proceed with caution, and I am NOT resposible for any and all problems you may run into.
Thanks so much.
Theres a flashable chameleon fix in that thread.
So awesome.
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I am including a version of Billard's TWRP, (original thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769) to make it easier for you to revert to LJC. What I do, coming from LK8, is the usual prescribed wipes, before flashing any rom, but I also wipe with the new Carrier button under the wipe menu. When you first boot the new rom, it will rebuild the wiped carrier partition automatically and reboot. Once rebooted, the Handsfree Activation will begin, and the Chameleon errors will no longer be a problem.
This recovery is a godsend.
If you want to go back to any other recovery afterwards, just ODIN your chosen recovery, or flash one, whichever format of recovery you downloaded. I usually just download Goo Manager from the Play store, and install the official TWRP from OpenRecovery Script.
This is a recovery zip file you can flash with the recovery you have now.
Hope this helps, and Billard, I could not find a link to your recovery (found it!! Updated to your original link now). If there's a problem with me sharing your recovery, let me know!
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=2472 << chose the oCOMBINATION_L900VPALJC_CL434243_HWID04_HW_Rev0406_user.tar.md5ne with carrier wipe!
As always, proceed with caution, and I am NOT resposible for any and all problems you may run into.
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what I did was I flashed the custom recovery by Billard, then I flashed the LJC_Stock_With_Count_Reset[FINAL].zip and that put me in a boot loop. I then booted my phone to download mode and flashed COMBINATION_L900VPALJC_CL434243_HWID04_HW_Rev0406_user.tar.md5. The result was my note 2 back to stock with stock recovery and 4.1.1 ljc! If you were to flash the COMBINATION_L900VPALJC_CL434243_HWID04_HW_Rev0406_user.tar.md5 without first at least installing the custom recovery and wiping the carrier settings I know that the combination tar will fail and you'll be stuck with a kies message. If you follow my steps your phone should also go through with the combination.tar file and put you back to unrooted, stock, ljc. Hope this helps someone.
Sorry for the dumb question but what is chameleon
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budde2 said:
Sorry for the dumb question but what is chameleon
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMT1FLzEn9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
No all jokes aside is what happens when you revert back to LJC from any of the other builds like LK8 and up. Something breaks which causes hands free activation to start up after every boot and it fails to activate device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062499
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMT1FLzEn9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
No all jokes aside is what happens when you revert back to LJC from any of the other builds like LK8 and up. Something breaks which causes hands free activation to start up after every boot and it fails to activate device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062499
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I went to ma7 back to ljc with no problems with that maybe the restore with flash count reset has a fix implemented
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budde2 said:
I went to ma7 back to ljc with no problems with that maybe the restore with flash count reset has a fix implemented
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Yes it does have the fix. You should read more clearly before flashing things. It's noted in the OP. Wouldn't want you bricking your Note one of these days
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RayTrue04 said:
Yes it does have the fix. You should read more clearly before flashing things. It's noted in the OP. Wouldn't want you bricking your Note one of these days
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Yeah must have missed that. Honestly I read it twice im a shamed to say lol
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I just posted Omni 4.4 rom for GEESPR, please proceed to the development thread over here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47113691
Downloading!!! THANKS!!!
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Any feedback so far?
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Failed to flash on first try for me. Re downloading and trying again.
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dmband64 said:
Failed to flash on first try for me. Re downloading and trying again.
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Failed for me too... Says file is for att and my device is geehrc4g scared to try that version...
Edit : trying hrc version
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PartimusPrime said:
Failed for me too... Says file is for att and my device is geehrc4g scared to try that version...
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Yeah second try for me was a fail also. Same result. It says it is for the att version. Bummer.
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Guys you have to flash the mako twrp for it to work. Idk why but you do. I did but I'm not liking not having any sound. No music, ringtones, nothing...
But my problem now is twrp isn't seeing any of my backups so now I'm stuck:thumbdown:
Anybody got any ideas how to get my backups to show???
idk how I got here...
treezy26 said:
Guys you have to flash the mako twrp for it to work. Idk why but you do. I did but I'm not liking not having any sound. No music, ringtones, nothing...
But my problem now is twrp isn't seeing any of my backups so now I'm stuck:thumbdown:
Anybody got any ideas how to get my backups to show???
idk how I got here...
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Copy the backup from Twrp folder in data/media to the TWRP location in the 0 folder
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This is cool but ima hold off for a bit this my only phone...
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PartimusPrime said:
Copy the backup from Twrp folder in data/media to the TWRP location in the 0 folder
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Yeah just figured out the mako recovery thing also. Always have to copy my backup also when I flash aosp ROMs.
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treezy26 said:
Guys you have to flash the mako twrp for it to work. Idk why but you do. I did but I'm not liking not having any sound. No music, ringtones, nothing...
But my problem now is twrp isn't seeing any of my backups so now I'm stuck:thumbdown:
Anybody got any ideas how to get my backups to show???
idk how I got here...
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When you mean sound, ringtone, music etc
Are you referring to file search or the actually
ROM not paying any type of sound
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dmband64 said:
Yeah just figured out the mako recovery thing also. Always have to copy my backup also when I flash aosp ROMs.
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Which Mako did you flash 2.6.3.3
Guys the link in the OP doesn't mention but once you hit the link that page says for 8mpx camera models only.
this isn't going to work it's GSM only.
reddragon72 said:
Guys the link in the OP doesn't mention but once you hit the link that page says for 8mpx camera models only.
this isn't going to work it's GSM only.
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Chad created versions for different LGOG models. He's legit. Wouldn't post in the Sprint forums unless he had something. There is a link for a geespr model (that's us).
By no sound I mean no sound at all. Can't play music or hear ringtones.
idk how I got here...
treezy26 said:
By no sound I mean no sound at all. Can't play music or hear ringtones.
idk how I got here...
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Weird cos UI sounds work. But all in all, the ROM feels somewhat daily enough for me. Data, Text, and Camera are all i need anyways.
babymatteo said:
Weird cos UI sounds work. But all in all, the ROM feels somewhat daily enough for me. Data, Text, and Camera are all i need anyways.
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So you got it to flash? Did you use twrp for mako? And do you have LTE? Thanks for the info.
Androidawg said:
So you got it to flash? Did you use twrp for mako? And do you have LTE? Thanks for the info.
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The ROM worked for me as well. What I did was flash the Mako recovery first in our regular recovery, rebooted back to recovery from TWRP to put me on the Mako TWRP, then wiped and flashed ROM there.
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iamterence said:
The ROM worked for me as well. What I did was flash the Mako recovery first in our regular recovery, rebooted back to recovery from TWRP to put me on the Mako TWRP, then wiped and flashed ROM there.
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How does the camera work? SMS/MMS/Data, etc. If everything basically works I might just go for it.
Androidawg said:
How does the camera work? SMS/MMS/Data, etc. If everything basically works I might just go for it.
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Well, I didn't get that far in the ROM because I noticed I was getting the bug where I wouldn't get data after switching back from wifi. Really killed the vibe for me. Maybe an APN switch would've fixed it, but I didn't try it, haha.
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Do I just flash the recovery img or do I change the extension to zip?
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Since I wiped all my data and was able to flash a custom rom, how do I get back to stock?
I saw a thread for all the other variants on this but not one specific for sprint.
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Or does anyone have a clean stock back up file they can pm me? (Is that even possible?)
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Return to stock
Follow the guide here
first here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477595
and the follow the verizon guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
but used the sprint .DLL file and .TOT files.
worked for me when I flashed the incorrect ROM.
blaskewitts said:
Follow the guide here
first here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477595
and the follow the verizon guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
but used the sprint .DLL file and .TOT files.
worked for me when I flashed the incorrect ROM.
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Thanks, looks like I have to clear my schedule to do this lol
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back to stock
the process took around 10 minutes for me. Let me know if you need help finding the correct files.
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the process took around 10 minutes for me. Let me know if you need help finding the correct files.
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I've been reading the guides so let me clarify: if I can get into download mode, I can skip the first guide?
And I don't see sprint DLL or tot file. Can you point me to the download?
Appreciate your help on this.
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Here is a .rar file of everything that you will need for the return to stock.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zntnp3cruifu7uh/sprint%20lg%20g2%20back%20to%20stock.rar
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Here is a .rar file of everything that you will need for the return to stock.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zntnp3cruifu7uh/sprint%20lg%20g2%20back%20to%20stock.rar
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You are a life saver. I've been looking for a while now and i'm almost done downloading.... Thanks alot.
Here is the SPRINT Stock Firmware on my Server for FAST speeds
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/LG+G2/Stock/Sprint+LS980/
hyelton said:
Here is the SPRINT Stock Firmware on my Server for FAST speeds
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/LG+G2/Stock/Sprint+LS980/
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Do you mind if i make a thread in the sprint android development forum and link your server for easy access? Also I noticed download speeds are in the 100KB/sec. Is this because the server is getting hammered hard by downloads?
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I could use stock recovery
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Is it possible for someone to make a nandroid backup of their stock ROM, then post a DL link?
Then we could just DL the backup, manually copy it to our phone to the proper folder, and restore it through TWRP or CWM. Does that work?
I've never tried but it seems much more simple! Sorry in advance if that is a stupid idea and doesn't work. If not, explain why!
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Is it possible for someone to make a nandroid backup of their stock ROM, then post a DL link?
Then we could just DL the backup, manually copy it to our phone to the proper folder, and restore it through TWRP or CWM. Does that work?
I've never tried but it seems much more simple! Sorry in advance if that is a stupid idea and doesn't work. If not, explain why!
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No that doesn't work because you can't make a backup in TWRP or CWM of the stock based ROM when you are unrooted since if you are unrooted you can't flash TWRP or CWM. The earliest you can make a nandroid backup is right after you root and flash TWRP recovery.
When you do an OTA, the Sprint stock OTA update looks for valid files in certain directories that the root method might have changed and any certificates might be invalid so it doesn't install. That is why some folks who rooted and then do the OTA and the OTA install fails and they get bootlooped. This is why they say if you are rooted, do NOT take the OTA update. If you must, like in the case of Verizon you should take the OTA first when you are unrooted, let it install and then root.
Thanks for responding!
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not working for me.. i have twrp and aospa 4.4 kk alpha. i downloaded the sprint return to stock zip and followed all instructions to the letter. everything seems fine untill the final step where it will actually flash then it tells me (lg flash tool) download failed, device model is different. really stressing me out i would like to get back to stock.appreciate any help.
Can't you just flash via recovery?
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tinpaul said:
Can't you just flash via recovery?
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is there a flashable stock image? i had made a backup in twrp but somehow accidentally wiped everything including sdcard when i was wiping.
Am asking because I thought that the zip file we all downloaded could be flash via recovery and not just the flash tool?
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Nah it holds a sprint tot image file and a dll and needs to be flashed using the LG tool.
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Nah it holds a sprint tot image file and a dll and needs to be flashed using the LG tool.
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Ok didn't know, luckily I have that tool, now it's knowing how to use it.....lol
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