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Long story short i rushed when rooting my GN because im pretty familiar with rooting android phones. I did not realize you needed to modify a file to be able to boot into CWM other than using rom manager.
My question is, is there a way to get the stock image on the phone, or, use my computer to fix this? Because currently my phone is in a bootloop (I installed gummynex improperly, rushing and forgot to wipe data, yeah i know i asked for it.,..)
If i boot into recovery all it does is let me turn the phone on, i cant select recovery or anything.
HALP!
Find stock Google images and flash them with fastboot.
joshnichols189 said:
Find stock Google images and flash them with fastboot.
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Thanks but one last question, I can only boot the phone into the stock bootloader (whatever the default thing is when you hold the power button and volume down) and in this, the ONLY option it gives me is to start the phone, nothing else
Am i going to be able to push files to my phone in this?
I think this may have just been a MAJOR blonde moment for myself. in order to access CWM and ****, you have to hold both volume buttons and the power button? Because i was just holding volume down and power....
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I think this may have just been a MAJOR blonde moment for myself. in order to access CWM and ****, you have to hold both volume buttons and the power button? Because i was just holding volume down and power....
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I take it that you were able to flash the factory images and are all set or do you still need some help?
I've got a dilemma. My rooted Verizon GNex just stopped working today. Yesterday, it was working fine. I plugged it up at night before bed and about an hour ago, I grab it off the charge. Nothing happened when I hit the power button which was strange because I never turn it off and I didn't let the battery die. I pressed and held and "Google" and the little lock on the bottom came up so I set the phone down while it powered on. 5 minutes later, it's still in that state, then a few seconds later, the screen goes black and nothing happened. I took the battery out and put it back in twice and nothing happens. I can't remember downloading any apps other than Zagat and a guide for Ingress in the last few days. A PDF online or two. What do I do with a rooted phone that's still under warranty (just barely so time is a factor)? Can they really check if the phone won't even turn on?
My old roommate sent her unlocked/rooted Gnex back to VZW when her charging port stopped working. They never charged her for it or anything, but it did say something like "you would be responsible to pay $X if rooted blah blah.." Either they are bluffing or she slipped in.
Did you try clearing data, factory reset?
How can I do a factor reset if it won't turn on? All I know is pulling the battery or holding the power and volume buttons at once.
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My old roommate sent her unlocked/rooted Gnex back to VZW when her charging port stopped working. They never charged her for it or anything, but it did say something like "you would be responsible to pay $X if rooted blah blah.." Either they are bluffing or she slipped in.
Did you try clearing data, factory reset?
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I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power from a powered off state can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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RoyJ said:
I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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Unless it's different on the VZW than a GSM phone you need to hold volume up & volume down + power to get to the bootloader (fastboot mode)
LaWolfe said:
How can I do a factor reset if it won't turn on? All I know is pulling the battery or holding the power and volume buttons at once.
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With the phone off hold both volume buttons and the power button, then use the down volume key to navigate to recovery, and power to select the option. Once in recovery you will see wipe data/ factory reset option.
Also if you have a backup you can restore it from recovery.
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I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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No a factory reset wont wipe root, but if it solves his problem and the phone is functional again he wont need to exchange it through warranty, so no need to unroot.
Holy crud that worked! It's on and it shows the green start arrow pointing toward the power button which does nothing when I press it (I hear some Samsungs have issues with the power button not working). Under the Android bot it says, "Downloading... Do not turn off target!" but my PC (W7) couldn't download whatever driver it needed. And I just realized I do have the Wugs toolkit. Can I unroot if I'm unable to get critical buttons on my phone top act properly?
Try the factory reset first. If that works you get to keep the phone like WiredPirate said. Check out this guide to install drivers and flash stock Google images if you have to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25477039
Edit: sorry I have been up for a while. Power off the phone. Pull battery if you need to. Power + BOTH volume buttons at the same time. Use the volume keys to navigate to recovery mode and power to select it. If the phone will boot to recovery try a factory reset and reboot. If that works, awesome. If not follow the guide above to flash the phone to stock.
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Instead of plugging it up to your computer before/after it boots, can you press the volume down key twice for it to display "recovery" on that green arrow?.. Then hit the power button to boot into recovery. No USB, no toolkit or computer. Then do a factory reset and/or restore a backup and see if the phone boots normal.
It wasn't working working without being plugged up to the computer and now the phone is on the lock screen. What I'm going to do is unroot, backup, and decide whether or not to take it to Verizon. I want to but if I can't actually show them anything, I wonder what they'll do. Looks like everything seemss normal for now. Thanks for the help!
Oh okay, well good deal.. Glad everything is back to a more stable state now. :good:
Hey!
I have got the same Problem (though GSM version)! I cant boot up my system. When I turn the device on the Google screen appears along with the unlocked lock.
I have already tried to full whipe it and restore it but it did not work. Bevore that the restore did not work either!
Can someone help me?
Andraxx said:
Hey!
I have got the same Problem (though GSM version)! I cant boot up my system. When I turn the device on the Google screen appears along with the unlocked lock.
I have already tried to full whipe it and restore it but it did not work. Bevore that the restore did not work either!
Can someone help me?
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Try the factory reset first. If that works you get to keep the phone like WiredPirate said. Check out this guide to install drivers and flash stock Google images if you have to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25477039
Edit: sorry I have been up for a while. Power off the phone. Pull battery if you need to. Power + BOTH volume buttons at the same time. Use the volume keys to navigate to recovery mode and power to select it. If the phone will boot to recovery try a factory reset and reboot. If that works, awesome. If not follow the guide above to flash the phone to stock.
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Problem is that my PC does not recognize my device even though I have installed the drivers and in device menager it says: Samsung Android ADB Interface
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Problem is that my PC does not recognize my device even though I have installed the drivers and in device menager it says: Samsung Android ADB Interface
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Delete the drivers you see for the phone inside of device manager. Now go back to that topic, scroll all the way up to the very beginning and follow the steps. It tells you exactly how to correctly install the drivers to get your phone recognized.
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I have a Wildfire S someone was just looking to get rid of. I'd like to try and set this up for my son to use, but it has a lock screen code and I've no way of directly contacting the previous owner.
I'd like to know the easiest way to just wipe the phone and factory reset it so I can try it out and see if it's going to work for me. I may try rooting/ROMing later, but right now I just want to wipe all their data etc. and just get it back to a factory reset state. If the easiest way to get this thing wiped is to root it and install a ROM I'd be find with that as well. (I don't have any experience tinkering with HTC phones).
Thanks for any help. I tried searching and wasn't able to find anything and there's no stickies I could find on the subject (If I missed an obvious guide I apologize).
Merman1983 said:
I have a Wildfire S someone was just looking to get rid of. I'd like to try and set this up for my son to use, but it has a lock screen code and I've no way of directly contacting the previous owner.
I'd like to know the easiest way to just wipe the phone and factory reset it so I can try it out and see if it's going to work for me. I may try rooting/ROMing later, but right now I just want to wipe all their data etc. and just get it back to a factory reset state. If the easiest way to get this thing wiped is to root it and install a ROM I'd be find with that as well. (I don't have any experience tinkering with HTC phones).
Thanks for any help. I tried searching and wasn't able to find anything and there's no stickies I could find on the subject (If I missed an obvious guide I apologize).
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you can directly factory reset it.
remove battery and again install it.then hold volume down and power button.
then you can see bootloader menu,and with help of volume keys select factory reset option and press power button.it might help to reset your phone directly.
crossfire77 said:
you can directly factory reset it.
remove battery and again install it.then hold volume down and power button.
then you can see bootloader menu,and with help of volume keys select factory reset option and press power button.it might help to reset your phone directly.
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Awesome - thanks - I was trying holding down Vol Up and Vol Down + PWR which is the way it's always been with Samsung phones.
I can use "adb reboot recovery" to enter TWRP 2.7 recovery mode, but I want to use key combination, please tell me how to that.
Hold Power + Vol Down > Wait until LG Logo pops up and release from both buttons > quickly hold Power + Vol Up + Vol Down again
It will pop up with some message about reset to factory settings, but it's all a bluff.
Hit Power x3 times to confirm and you'll get to TWRP recovery
Thanks, it works.
actually I enter this factory reset mode before, but i just don't know it a "fake".
so will this erase all data or not?
Jasiekor said:
so will this erase all data or not?
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That will depend on whether you've installed TWRP or not.
If you've still got the original recovery it will wipe it like it says it will, if you've got a custom recovery it will take you to it.
The standard recovery isn't a recovery like you're expecting it to be, if just has a way of resetting things to default without allowing you to do anything extra. OEM don't like giving people options but want a way to reset to defaults that the customer can use before needing to return a faulty unit which might not be faulty. If that makes sense.
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Hold Power + Vol Down > Wait until LG Logo pops up and release from both buttons > quickly hold Power + Vol Up + Vol Down again
It will pop up with some message about reset to factory settings, but it's all a bluff.
Hit Power x3 times to confirm and you'll get to TWRP recovery
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Thought I'd lost recovery after flashing the lp rom. Sorry for the bump! Many thanks and lol at the 'bluff' factory reset!
Fullmetal Jun said:
Thought I'd lost recovery after flashing the lp rom. Sorry for the bump! Many thanks and lol at the 'bluff' factory reset!
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No problems, happy to help
Fullmetal Jun said:
Thought I'd lost recovery after flashing the lp rom. Sorry for the bump! Many thanks and lol at the 'bluff' factory reset!
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From what I can tell, it's not a "bluff". It seems that the stock recovery partition would just automatically do a factory reset, so it warns you before booting the recovery partition. Seeing as you're non-stock, it just boots into TWRP/CWM. It's a valid warning that's simply set up in a weird way.
i hard rest my lg stylo but when i did it erased all my key comob how did i get them back
crystalgirl20977 said:
i hard rest my lg stylo but when i did it erased all my key comob how did i get them back
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You don't.
We'll you might be able to but you're going about it the wrong way.
First you need to find the right forum for your device, then you read, followed by more reading.
At some point you've hopefully discovered that you should have done all this reading before you reset your device.
Also before pressing the post button on your next post, read it first to make sure it makes sense.
Thank you very much, I tried other combinations found on some web pages that failed. This one worked!
Issue remains.
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Hold Power + Vol Down > Wait until LG Logo pops up and release from both buttons > quickly hold Power + Vol Up + Vol Down again
It will pop up with some message about reset to factory settings, but it's all a bluff.
Hit Power x3 times to confirm and you'll get to TWRP recovery
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I got myself in a pretty bad situation. I have the stock rom. I am trying to get that back using recovery but it's not working. Only factory reset screen. This tablet stopped working in 2015. It cannot write ANY data ANYWHERE. Can't take pics, Can't take screenshots, Can't download apps. Nothing. I really want my tablet back... :/
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I got myself in a pretty bad situation. I have the stock rom. I am trying to get that back using recovery but it's not working. Only factory reset screen. This tablet stopped working in 2015. It cannot write ANY data ANYWHERE. Can't take pics, Can't take screenshots, Can't download apps. Nothing. I really want my tablet back... :/
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I'm probably not the best person to help, however if you put a new post up with more details on what you have access too, the community will be able to help out.
CharaGloom said:
I got myself in a pretty bad situation. I have the stock rom. I am trying to get that back using recovery but it's not working. Only factory reset screen. This tablet stopped working in 2015. It cannot write ANY data ANYWHERE. Can't take pics, Can't take screenshots, Can't download apps. Nothing. I really want my tablet back... :/
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Install LG software on your computer first. Then with the tablet completely off, hold VolUp and plug the tablet into the computer. That will enter LG download mode. Use the LG software on your PC to install the latest firmware available for your device. From there you can use the guides on this forum to go custom if you so desire.
Please help lg g 3 won't enter custom recovery I've tried all button variations
Please someone help I have a rooted g3 and don't wanna brick it?????
Go into an adb terminal and type in
Code:
adb reboot recovery[/quote]. If you don't have adb, search up minimal adb and fastboot, and how to use it.
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On computer or phone?
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And my phone already has twrp, just can't access it from device being off, but twrp app lets me go to recovery, just not when phone is off. So this should fix that right?
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I've seen people are viewing this post if anyone know how to fix my problem please help or message me, the minimal adb won't work unless the device is turned on in usb. debugging, I can access my recovery with phone on easily but while it's powered off I should be able to get to custom recovery by pressing volume down and power while phone is off, but this method isn't working. So if I get in bootloop I can't get into custom recovery...please anyone any ideas
Well it should be as simple as holding down power and volume button down things but i guess you've already tried that method many times and it didnt work so you ask then, right?
If your phone in bootloop, you can flash tot files and it will back to stock re-root and re-install trwp.
If your phone still (or already) normal, you can download an app that can take you to custom recovery such as rebooter or power menu, thats it.
Yea phone isn't in bootloop, but if I put a Rom on phone I have no way to access the recovery because the volume and power won't take me to the recovery, so if it goes into bootloop I'm outta of luck I don't understand why the hardware buttons won't take me to the recovery, have you ever heard of this problem
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I've seen people are viewing this post if anyone know how to fix my problem please help or message me, the minimal adb won't work unless the device is turned on in usb. debugging, I can access my recovery with phone on easily but while it's powered off I should be able to get to custom recovery by pressing volume down and power while phone is off, but this method isn't working. So if I get in bootloop I can't get into custom recovery...please anyone any ideas
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How long are you holding the vol down and power buttons? It should be around 15-20 seconds, then your system recovery screen comes up, you choose factory data reset, yes, and then TWRP comes up. If that isn't working - are you sure your buttons are working OK?
If the phone is turned off is there any other way to access it while phone is off?
Yes buttons work fine I hold it down and it just goes to Verizon screen ?
Actually when I hold it down it just stays on logo and reboots back to logo over and over and over
Actually I hold it down and it reboots to logo over and over its like there's no recovery there I don't understand lol
If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on how to fix this please let me know
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If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on how to fix this please let me know
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OK... Does your phone boot into your ROM at all or are you bootlooped? If your phone boots, download an app called flashify and get the proper twrp .img file for your model and flash the image using flashify. It's an easy app to use - just make sure you're using the correct twrp .img for your phone...from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/orig-development/recovery-twrp-touch-recovery-2-8-2-0-t2966129
If you are bootlooped I would suggest starting over and reflashing back to stock using the tot or kdz method. Here is a guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/restore-verizon-to-stock-t2827878 I know it can be a pain to get the download tool working properly sometimes, so it may take some effort to get it working, but be patient (and read a lot if you get stuck) and you will get it working.
I don't know how you got borked...maybe it was an un-bumped twrp image? Either way, it is what it is, just try not to do it again Good luck.
Thanks much I'll try this
When this happened to me i would
1: remove battery
2: insert battery
3: hold volume down and lock button at the same time
4: When the LG Logo pops up release the lock button for 1 second (while still holding the volume down button), then press down again
5: A data reset/restore menu appears, and when you choose to reset/restore, TWRP boots to recovery.
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When this happened to me i would
1: remove battery
2: insert battery
3: hold volume down and lock button at the same time
4: When the LG Logo pops up release the lock button for 1 second (while still holding the volume down button), then press down again
5: A data reset/restore menu appears, and when you choose to reset/restore, TWRP boots to recovery.
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I tried this also not working how did you fix it?
brozillatyler said:
I tried this also not working how did you fix it?
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Hmm. That worked for me. I'm not sure what next.