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[Q] CWM problem please help!

I was running cyanogenmod 9 on my phone when I looked into rom manager, I realized that there was a new version available (6.0.2.7) so I installed it via rom manager. A few days later i found that a stable version of cyanogenmod 10 was available so i put the zip file on my phone and followed the instructions to flash it. I did a darkside superwipe and everything. Then i went to boot my phone and it was stuck on the boot animation for 30 minutes, i scrolled down the page to find a comment from a person having the same issue, he said that to fix it he just pulled the battery out of his phone, put it back in and booted into recovery, did a factory reset, cache wipe and fixed permissions, then booted and it worked. I decided to try, so I booted recovery and tried to do a factory reset, clockworkmod froze. I tried it again, and it froze again. I then tried to clear the cache, clockworkmod froze. I tried to do a darkside superwipe, clockworkmod froze. No matter what I try to install clockworkmod will freeze. Has anybody on here had this problem, or know how to fix it? Or maybe know how to downgrade clockworkmod without being able to actually use the phone?

First off, don't use the Superwipe script on anything other than CWM 5.0.X. It'll cause a boot loop and ruin your recovery. I think your best bet is to boot into download mode and flash a recovery using Odin.
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I just discovered that I can't get into download mode either.

Have you ever tried to reset your phone through kies? If not give it a try. Open kies on your computer then go to tools and click on upgrade and initialize. It will ask you to enter your device model, then the s/n number and just follow the instructions from kies. Let me know if that works for you
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isoul said:
Have you ever tried to reset your phone through kies? If not give it a try. Open kies on your computer then go to tools and click on upgrade and initialize. It will ask you to enter your device model, then the s/n number and just follow the instructions from kies. Let me know if that works for you
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Good idea, but my phone won't actually get passed the boot animation, so Kies can't recognize it.

Yeah mine was doing the same, can you get it in download mode?
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I tell you what, plug your phone to the computer and press volume up down and power it should get you in download mode then try to do the above trick
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If you can still get back to CWM recovery mode, you can use adb from a PC to reboot it into download by
Code:
adb shell
su
reboot download
After that you should be able to use Odin to push anything you need to (or Kies *should* work when it's in download mode, it's been a while since I've used it for anything)

isoul said:
Yeah mine was doing the same, can you get it in download mode?
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I tell you what, plug your phone to the computer and press volume up down and power it should get you in download mode then try to do the above trick
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Yes just figured out to get my phone in download you have to just hold the down volume button, then put in the usb cable. Rather then holding both up and down.

Just to let you you don't need kies to recognize your device to do that.
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isoul said:
Just to let you you don't need kies to recognize your device to do that.
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Just retried and it started, but then I got a notice with a bunch of Chinese writing, then the upgrade shutdown.

Well sorry to hear that. I would recommend to go galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick, I used that the last time my bricks
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If you can get to download, you can try Odin to push a new recovery image. If you get CWM back up and running, you can use various adb spells and have a pretty good chance to get your phone back into working condition.

Let us know how things going. We will try to get your phone back to working condition.
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isoul said:
Let us know how things going. We will try to get your phone back to working condition.
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alright so, heres where I am: the whole kies thing didn't work, so I tried to flash a new recovery through odin, it failed and now my phone is on a message that looks like the download screen, but instead of "downloading" it says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again.

May be try kies again. I also post a web site to check I used it the last time my phone bricked. If you didn't see it here it is galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick. It worked for me.
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isoul said:
May be try kies again. I also post a web site to check I used it the last time my phone bricked. If you didn't see it here it is galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick. It worked for me.
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Figured out that the screen I was seeing is still download mode, and odin still recognizes my phone. Found on the website that if I try to flash the stock firmware via odin, it should unbrick/ unroot the phone. When I tried to flash through odin it got stuck on the boot.img process and wont load any further. I tried kies again and still had the same problem.

Sorry to here that. In the meanwhile, I will do some research, will let you know.
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isoul said:
Sorry to here that. In the meanwhile, I will do some research, will let you know.
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alright thanks man, i'm going to come up with a good story to tell Samsung to get it warrantied lol, any ideas?

Yeah man that sounds like a good plan. Tell them your phone wasn't acting like it used to so you went on kies trying to upgrade / initialize in hope that it will work but it damages your phone with some chinese or korean dialog box that you didn't unstand
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Freegee bricked me

Dude, freegee bricked me. Im on mac osx and need help unbricking. I can get into download mode...but idk what to do after that. Please please help.

I have insurance via sprint, will they swap it out for me?

_dannyboy said:
Dude, freegee bricked me. Im on mac osx and need help unbricking. I can get into download mode...but idk what to do after that. Please please help.
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same thing happened to me.
I flashed teenybin and it recovered me. here is a link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106

I used the same link in the post above plus this link below.
http://pastebin.com/Z2i7E1AN
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Putting it in dowload mode is a little tricky. After drivers installed and software installed on PC, make sure phone is off! Had to hold volume key down at same time as power button and connect usb that is connected to computer. When phone boots to LG let go of power button only. Something like that.
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oneders65 said:
I used the same link in the post above plus this link below.
http://pastebin.com/Z2i7E1AN
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Putting it in dowload mode is a little tricky. After drivers installed and software installed on PC, make sure phone is off! Had to hold volume key down at same time as power button and connect usb that is connected to computer. When phone boots to LG let go of power button only. Something like that.
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When I try go through the command prompt and it says its finished, nothing happens. The command window goes away. What do I do?

oneders65 said:
I used the same link in the post above plus this link below.
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Trust me... remove this link. Its where it is for a reason.
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In many forums bricked used when a device is completely unusable like not even going to recovery or download mode just dead.

sharkboy0901 said:
Shouldn't say bricked because bricked means its completely unusable like it won't even go to download, recovery, nothing dead.
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I thought a softbrick was a bootloop but able to go into download and recovery...etc

_dannyboy said:
I thought a softbrick was a bootloop but able to go into download and recovery...etc
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Yes that is correct, soft bricked means bootloop, etc but brick or hard brick means won't turn on at all. Just trying to be informative lol
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sharkboy0901 said:
Yes that is correct, soft bricked means bootloop, etc but brick or hard brick means won't turn on at all. Just trying to be informative lol
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Lol thanks

_dannyboy said:
When I try go through the command prompt and it says its finished, nothing happens. The command window goes away. What do I do?
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are you using LGNPST to flash teenybin in download mode? if not got to teenybin thread scroll to bottom of additional info and click on click to show content box. this will give directions to download and set up LGNPST. Its been a while but I believe this is how I recovered.

Bdadd34 said:
are you using LGNPST to flash teenybin in download mode? if not got to teenybin thread scroll to bottom of additional info and click on click to show content box. this will give directions to download and set up LGNPST. Its been a while but I believe this is how I recovered.
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I cant get passed thw lgnpst set up. When I performed the install prompt from the 'install.bat' file, it goes through the driver set up and stuff, it tells me to press any button the continue because its finished, yet nothing happened....

If I remember right I also had trouble with the bat file but I think you can manually move the files you need as the bat file just loads the DLL files. Wish I remembered more but its been a month or 2 since I did it. Also my laptop went down that has all the files I used. It will work if you keep at it..I got my old laptop to work with another charger so I'll try to find the files you need tonight when I get home from work.
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Also if you have to move the ddl files make sure you use the command prompt and certify them.
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[Q] ZVB to ZVC

I have a rooted device and am trying to upgrade from ZVB to ZVC but each time I try it starts the download then has the droid with a red error message. I want this upgrade and am guessing my rooting has caused the issue.
Any advice how to get the upgrade on my phone?

Can use lgnpst. Go the the #lg-optimus-g irc and the link is in there to download, install, and run it
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I tried to download the ZVC from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106 there but it was an .img file and I couldn't convert it to a bin to use with LGNPST.

emfajardo2 said:
I tried to download the ZVC from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106 there but it was an .img file and I couldn't convert it to a bin to use with LGNPST.
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Have you made any changes other than root? Do you have TWRP installed? Let me know about these 2 and we'll go from there.

Yeah I have TWRP installed. Besides that I have not done anything that I can think of, anything in particular that you're talking about?

emfajardo2 said:
Yeah I have TWRP installed. Besides that I have not done anything that I can think of, anything in particular that you're talking about?
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If you have TWRP 2.5.0.0, go to wipe, factory reset, then advanced, /system, /cache, /data, / dalvic. Then install this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38755109.
Let it boot up. Ill put another file here in a minute.
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Then follow this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46130045
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engine95 said:
If you have TWRP 2.5.0.0, go to wipe, factory reset, then advanced, /system, /cache, /data, / dalvic. Then install this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38755109.
Let it boot up. Ill put another file here in a minute.
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Then follow this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46130045
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Thanks a lot for the help man. I'll let you know how it goes once I've done everything.

Looks like it's working with ZVC!
Thanks for all the help!

emfajardo2 said:
Looks like it's working with ZVC!
Thanks for all the help!
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Good to hear. Thanks.
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After having this installed for a day, I've noticed that my data connection is gone.
I have everything turned on but only WiFi works.

Never mind! Updated PRL and Profile and data connection has been reborn!

A few questions after rooting

To get into fastboot - Vol Up, Power
To get into TWRP - Vol Down x2, Power
What do I need to use to uninstall apps I dont want? Going into something like Google Books and all I see is "Uninstall updates". Do I use something like Titanium Backup to do this?

Mindspin_311 said:
To get into fastboot - Vol Up, Power
To get into TWRP - Vol Down x2, Power
What do I need to use to uninstall apps I dont want? Going into something like Google Books and all I see is "Uninstall updates". Do I use something like Titanium Backup to do this?
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Correct...
I use titanium backup to uninstall those
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Ok, more pressing issue now..
Was attempting to disable the camera shutter sound via editing the build.prop file. First round didnt work. I was changing the permissions of the System folder to rw-r-r from whatever it was set to as default. Using Root Browser. I checked the boxes I wanted, then hit back. Phone froze up, I hit power to see what that would do. Now the phone just boots into TWRP...
Im guessing I messed something up. Please help.

Mindspin_311 said:
Ok, more pressing issue now..
Was attempting to disable the camera shutter sound via editing the build.prop file. First round didnt work. I was changing the permissions of the System folder to rw-r-r from whatever it was set to as default. Using Root Browser. I checked the boxes I wanted, then hit back. Phone froze up, I hit power to see what that would do. Now the phone just boots into TWRP...
Im guessing I messed something up. Please help.
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And im assuming you don't have a backup to restore correct?
You try doing a factory reset?
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PartimusPrime said:
And im assuming you don't have a backup to restore correct?
You try doing a factory reset?
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No backup yet
How do I do a factory reset from TWRP? Or is that something more involved than Im thinking?

Since I was messing with permissions when things went south, would the "fix permissions" option be a possible solution?

Mindspin_311 said:
Since I was messing with permissions when things went south, would the "fix permissions" option be a possible solution?
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To do a factory reset just go to wipe menu... You can try to fix permissions it won't hurt
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Mindspin_311 said:
Since I was messing with permissions when things went south, would the "fix permissions" option be a possible solution?
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Possibly. When you mess with the build prop, and goof, it usually won't boot. You should have made a back up. Then if no boot, then just restore.
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Factory reset didnt help at all. Nor did Fix permissions.
Looking into things, it looks like I can get a ZIP of whatever ROM I want and use SDK to get it onto my SD card and then just Install that ROM which should solve the issue?

Another option as partimus said.... In TWRP go to wipe, then factory reset.
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Mindspin_311 said:
Factory reset didnt help at all. Nor did Fix permissions.
Looking into things, it looks like I can get a ZIP of whatever ROM I want and use SDK to get it onto my SD card and then just Install that ROM which should solve the issue?
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So in TWRP, does it show any flashable Roms to install?
As long as you have TWRP, if there's not a rom on SD, then yes, you can adb sideload a ROM and install it.
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engine95 said:
Another option as partimus said.... In TWRP go to wipe, then factory reset.
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So in TWRP, does it show any flashable Roms to install?
As long as you have TWRP, if there's not a rom on SD, then yes, you can adb sideload a ROM and install it.
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^^
What our wise friend said
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engine95 said:
Another option as partimus said.... In TWRP go to wipe, then factory reset.
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So in TWRP, does it show any flashable Roms to install?
As long as you have TWRP, if there's not a rom on SD, then yes, you can adb sideload a ROM and install it.
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OK, I have the SDK downloaded. Do I simply go to the CMD window to use the "adb sideload <zip name> command? I see the gist of the instructions in the Softbrick thread, but I feel there are some extra details missing.

Mindspin_311 said:
OK, I have the SDK downloaded. Do I simply go to the CMD window to use the "adb sideload <zip name> command? I see the gist of the instructions in the Softbrick thread, but I feel there are some extra details missing.
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You need to install adb. Google it, lots of install threads on it.
Then just follow adri's guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36270473
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This seems like a pretty good walkthrough, agreed?
http://www.howtogeek.com/125769/

This seems like a pretty good walkthrough, agreed?
http://www.howtogeek.com/125769/

Mindspin_311 said:
This seems like a pretty good walkthrough, agreed?
http://www.howtogeek.com/125769/
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Follow the one in this thread. It's my preference anyway. and simpler. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46006928&postcount=2

Saw this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443185
Would it be a more straightforward process? Ill just be able to start from scratch.

Mindspin_311 said:
Saw this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443185
Would it be a more straightforward process? Ill just be able to start from scratch.
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Both tools are good. Just depends on what you want to try
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Flash tool wasnt working, but LGNPST did. Back in action.

Mindspin_311 said:
Flash tool wasnt working, but LGNPST did. Back in action.
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Awesome!!!
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[Q] ugh help noobish guy here

ok here is the deal I was tryin to install 4.4.2 cm11 nightly following the true-android blogspot guide and when after doin all that was suggested I get this: Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify" Any advice?

I'm assuming you're unlocked and rooted right? What ROM are you on now?

samuelh said:
ok here is the deal I was tryin to install 4.4.2 cm11 nightly following the true-android blogspot guide and when after doin all that was suggested I get this: Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify" Any advice?
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LGNPST. Go here, in the Additional info is how to use and get it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40169203&postcount=1

engine95 said:
LGNPST. Go here, in the Additional info is how to use and get it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40169203&postcount=1
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I am on the stock lg optimus g 4.1.2 rom I think that my phone was not unlocked before i started that little adventure on T-A blogspot but i am rooted though i used gandolphs

samuelh said:
I am on the stock lg optimus g 4.1.2 rom I think that my phone was not unlocked before i started that little adventure on T-A blogspot but i am rooted though i used gandolphs
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That's what it's going to take to fix your phone.
You must've removed some apps and LGNPST or LGFlashtool is the only way to fix it.
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Guess i got lost when you said you were"trying" to install CM
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engine95 said:
That's what it's going to take to fix your phone.
You must've removed some apps and LGNPST or LGFlashtool is the only way to fix it.
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Guess i got lost when you said you were"trying" to install CM
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Nah i didnt remove no apps. My phone is working good just can't do the fastboot thing to get into recovery to install the cm11's 4.4.2 kitkat. Am i correct in assuming that i need to unlock my phone?? and if so will the LGNPST unlock my phone?...Sorry bout bein the noob guy

samuelh said:
Nah i didnt remove no apps. My phone is working good just can't do the fastboot thing to get into recovery to install the cm11's 4.4.2 kitkat. Am i correct in assuming that i need to unlock my phone?? and if so will the LGNPST unlock my phone?...Sorry bout bein the noob guy
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No worries.
So you used Framaroot to get root and now your stick in Secure ??? Bootloop, right?
If that's the case, then yes, you have to use either LGNPST or LGFlashtool. Flashtool has is own thread and LGNPST info is in the teeny bin thread under "Additional info.
Also there is a sticky in Development that'll help you reroot and unlock your phone.
Edit. Once you are rooted and unlocked then you'll need to install a KK TWRP or CWM. If you use Freegee to unlock, it'll install the needed recovery to flash KK ROMs.
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engine95 said:
No worries.
So you used Framaroot to get root and now your stick in Secure ??? Bootloop, right?
If that's the case, then yes, you have to use either LGNPST or LGFlashtool. Flashtool has is own thread and LGNPST info is in the teeny bin thread under "Additional info.
Also there is a sticky in Development that'll help you reroot and unlock your phone.
Edit. Once you are rooted and unlocked then you'll need to install a KK TWRP or CWM. If you use Freegee to unlock, it'll install the needed recovery to flash KK ROMs.
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No i'm not stuck it just won't let me get to recovery it says:
Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify. So i just hold the power button for 20 seconds then my phone turns back on is that what you mean????

samuelh said:
No i'm not stuck it just won't let me get to recovery it says:
Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify. So i just hold the power button for 20 seconds then my phone turns back on is that what you mean????
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You have stock recovery right now. You can't flash or really do anything with it. To fix your phone, you need to get into download mode.
Go to either or both, teeny bin thread and or LGFlashtool thread and follow those directions.
When your phone is fixed by either of those methods, then you can root and unlock your phone.
Edit. Does your phone boot up at all? It shouldn't if you're getting that message.
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engine95 said:
You have stock recovery right now. You can't flash or really do anything with it. To fix your phone, you need to get into download mode.
Go to either or both, teeny bin thread and or LGFlashtool thread and follow those directions.
When your phone is fixed by either of those methods, then you can root and unlock your phone.
Edit. Does your phone boot up at all? It shouldn't if you're getting that message.
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I have a dumb question now if by some reason i lose internet but i have already downloaded the files needed would i still be able to do it??? Also i would like to thank you for all the advice i certainly do appreciate it

samuelh said:
I have a dumb question now if by some reason i lose internet but i have already downloaded the files needed would i still be able to do it??? Also i would like to thank you for all the advice i certainly do appreciate it
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Yes and you're welcome
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