For some reason the top half of my phone's screen won't response to touch. If anyone has a way of fixing it, I will appreciate it. If not I'm gonna take it to sprint, but I need to make the phone completely stock again. I don't have a pc tho.
cjay15 said:
For some reason the top half of my phone's screen won't response to touch. If anyone has a way of fixing it, I will appreciate it. If not I'm gonna take it to sprint, but I need to make the phone completely stock again. I don't have a pc tho.
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You could boot into recovery and install cwm recovery if your recovery is unlocked. Just use the volume and power keys. Then install ZVC Stock rooted and use FreeGee to relock it.
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engine95 said:
You could boot into recovery and install cwm recovery if your recovery is unlocked. Just use the volume and power keys. Then install ZVC Stock rooted and use FreeGee to relock it.
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Would that take away the google image everytime my phone turns on?
cjay15 said:
Would that take away the google image everytime my phone turns on?
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When you relock with FreeGee it'll go back to LG logo.
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nice thinking engine95
I noticed if I used freegee to unlock my device with the mako unlock. then try and relock and restore it via freegee it don't work. it will soft brick the phone for some reason.
Rmontoya83 said:
I noticed if I used freegee to unlock my device with the mako unlock. then try and relock and restore it via freegee it don't work. it will soft brick the phone for some reason.
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That is probably because you changed something. If you remove any system apps or make any changes to the system and re-lock it will soft brick. It has to be untainted for the relock to work. That's why you're supposed to make a backup before making any changes and then restore the backup before re-locking the BL.
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Sooo I despite the many times I reminded myself to unlock booloader as soon as I got my phone...yup I forgot . .I was so excited when I got my phone that started messing around with it. Now two weeks later I come to realize that I forgot to unlock it....****. sooo now question being; how can I make the transition painless as far as back up, restore, home screen widgets...I am aware of the any options but I want to see what was easier from experience...thanx
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Accept the pain.
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Make a backup, unlock, restore backup.
Not seeing too many difficulties with that concept myself...
djmcnz said:
Make a backup, unlock, restore backup.
Not seeing too many difficulties with that concept myself...
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And what do u suggest I backup with? Google does that for me...I'm talking about my system data and app data.
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pr3cision said:
And what do u suggest I backup with? Google does that for me...I'm talking about my system data and app data.
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How about good old TitaniumBackup? It has been updated for ICS.
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How about good old TitaniumBackup? It has been updated for ICS.
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Titanium backup needs root. You cannot make a nandroid backup without root/custom recovery either. Unless you found a way around the bootloader, you need to unlock it before you have root access. So, you're in a pickle.
Honestly, I'd say to just use the built in screenshot function to save what your screens look like. Rely on the Market auto-restore feature to make the restoration quicker, and set it up over again.
If you want to save your texts, use SMS Backup and Restore (free app). Save your images and vid to your computer to stick back on there after.
Good luck!
Wait a minute...
Couldn't you just flash clockwork mod through fastboot without root?
Or does fastboot only work once unlocked?
Sorry if I sound ignorant, I don't know the answer myself because I unlocked immediately. Therefore I don't know what would happen if you were to try and flash CWM via fastboot while locked.
Anyone know?
thanasisc4 said:
Wait a minute...
Couldn't you just flash clockwork mod through fastboot without root?
Or does fastboot only work once unlocked?
Sorry if I sound ignorant, I don't know the answer myself because I unlocked immediately. Therefore I don't know what would happen if you were to try and flash CWM via fastboot while locked.
Anyone know?
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You have to unlock the bootloader in order to make changes to recovery.
With the bootloader locked, it won't let you make any changes to system image files.
On other phones, there are exploits available to trick the phone into unlocking the bootloader. On Nexus devices, all you have to do is "fastboot oem unlock"
Nothing bad will happen if you try to flash it with the bootloader locked. It'll just simply deny you the access to override the existing recovery with the one you wish to flash.
honesly I havent rooted or unlocked my bootloader yet, i dont really have a sense of urgency. at least not till aosp roms drop.
my question is, now that the boot loader has been cracked. we should expect an untethered recovery right?
also, from what i undrstand. i have to root first, then boot loader unlock, then i can flash the tethered recovery, right?
When you root and unlock the bootloader using the methods in the dev threads it will put in CWM.
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So I root. Unlock boot loader. N cwm is installed like magic?!
Is it the tethered version
sheek360 said:
So I root. Unlock boot loader. N cwm is installed like magic?!
Is it the tethered version
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I honestly have no idea what tethered version is, I am assuming you can only get into it by plugging your phone in and running some type of cmd? If so, then its untethered cause I can use it anywhere.
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I honestly have no idea what tethered version is, I am assuming you can only get into it by plugging your phone in and running some type of cmd? If so, then its untethered cause I can use it anywhere.
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Can you wipe, back up, etc? Exactly how did recovery wind up on your device? I'm confused.
sheek360 said:
Can you wipe, back up, etc? Exactly how did recovery wind up on your device? I'm confused.
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The Freegee bootloader unlock process installs it for you. You can wipe, mount, flash.... it gave me an error when I tried to back up but i'm pretty sure that can be done too.
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The Freegee bootloader unlock process installs it for you. You can wipe, mount, flash.... it gave me an error when I tried to back up but i'm pretty sure that can be done too.
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Gotcha. Thnx
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The Freegee bootloader unlock process installs it for you. You can wipe, mount, flash.... it gave me an error when I tried to back up but i'm pretty sure that can be done too.
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What he said ^
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You have to backup up to internal sd card or something like that, it's a few lines down from the normal backup.
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Hey fellow LG Optimus G users. Late last month I recently purchased the LGOG on Sprint and came here to seek a root guided. I didn't know that LG locks the bootloader on their devices. I came here, found root guides for 4.0.1 ZV9, 4.1.2 ZVB, AIO, Universal root and to be honest, the rooting portion was fairly simple, but its's unlocking/flashing where I have an issue.
I'm on my third phone. The first phone(unaware of it needing an unlock) I rooted and unlocked using the Universal method and tried to flash a ROM and bricked my phone. THe second time I used AIO root/unlock and my phone still messed up. Here I am once again and I really want to have my phone rooted and unlocked correctly so I can flash Paranoid Android(I like the hybrid ability it offers) but I am too skeptical about it now as I don't want to be out of a phone again. As far as Rooting goes, I feel I can just as easily use the universal method and gain root, but with unlocking, what do I have to do if the AIO way isn't correct for 4.1.2 ZVB? I'm not the best at using ADB and commands lines of the sort but if there is an alternative please help me out. Do I need a different tool? Is it availible on Google Play or is it all on PC?
Look over the guides again.
Use fiddy619 Universal root.
Download FreeGee from the Playstore to unlock.
Profit
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engine95 said:
Look over the guides again.
Use fiddy619 Universal root.
Download FreeGee from the Playstore to unlock.
Profit
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this is exactly what u want. to add to what engine said... if you reboot after freegee and end up stuck at a black screen(quick lg logo then black).. you are softbricked.. BUT THIS IS FIXABLE. so if the "worst" was to happen.. let us know and we'll get you sorted.
engine95 said:
Look over the guides again.
Use fiddy619 Universal root.
Download FreeGee from the Playstore to unlock.
Profit
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autoprime said:
this is exactly what u want. to add to what engine said... if you reboot after freegee and end up stuck at a black screen(quick lg logo then black).. you are softbricked.. BUT THIS IS FIXABLE. so if the "worst" was to happen.. let us know and we'll get you sorted.
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Thanks alot guys, I guess I'll give it another go using this method. If the "worst" is to happen, should I just reply back here? Or PM one of you guys?
Either one of us, and either way is fine. Although autoprime is much more knowledgeable than I. (Not open to debate just in case)
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Either one of us, and either way is fine. Although autoprime is much more knowledgeable than I. (Not open to debate just in case)
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Just unlocked my phone(went and bought the app to support shelnutt). Turned off the phone and then boot back up a clean boot, no error messages. I actually face palmed at how simple this turned out to be. Thanks guys :good:, glad to be apart of a helpful community. I'll play around in TWRP for a while to check its feats.
Edit: Now that my phone is rooted AND unlocked, am I able to remove the bloat apps without issue? I believe this caused my phone to have issues the first go round.
Hack and flash away til your hearts content.
Make sure you backup EFS, and make a TWRP backup and save them to your computer in case your SD gets wiped.
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Phone not booting up. PL HELP !
Hello guys !
I have done something terrible and phone is not booting up part recovery now.
I had rooted the phone with one-click universal method without any hasstles and then try to reboot into bootloader by pressing VolDown+Power button.
Eventually ended up rebooting in original android recovery. I tried rebooting with option in that but it was not responding.
While trying it out, I mistakenly wiped cache partition.
Now NO MATTER WHAT COMBINATION I TRY, phone doesn't boot up past the recovery.
Please help me sort out this mess. I need to sell the phone.
I wipe my cache partition all the time. I am rooted but still locked (I don't think that will last much longer). Anyways, in the android recovery with jelly bean, I found that you no longer use the power button for selecting or confirming. It's now done using the menu button below your screen (on the right) . At least that's how it works for my phone.
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autoprime said:
this is exactly what u want. to add to what engine said... if you reboot after freegee and end up stuck at a black screen(quick lg logo then black).. you are softbricked.. BUT THIS IS FIXABLE. so if the "worst" was to happen.. let us know and we'll get you sorted.
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Autoprime,
The "worst" is what happened to me. Can you please help me get out of this situation?
Not autoprime but...
Need some details
What is your phone doing?
Can you get into recovery?
Can you get into DL mode?
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engine95 said:
Not autoprime but...
Need some details
What is your phone doing?
Can you get into recovery?
Can you get into DL mode?
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When I power on the phone I get the LG logo and from there it goes straight to the "fastboot mode" screen, but I can't access the menus. I can also get the backlight screen, but when I connect it to the PC it doesn't recognize the device. I can also access "download mode" on the phone. Please forgive me if I'm not giving a lot of detail. This is my first root ever.
So you can get into fastboot? Did you unlock also? If so, press volume down twice then power. That should get you into recovery.
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engine95 said:
So you can get into fastboot? Did you unlock also? If so, press volume down twice then power. That should get you into recovery.
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what engine95 said. Worst case, LGNPST back to stock, and try again. there is a modified ZVB bin floating around that makes you unlocked, and once you boot into recovery, will root you. its the easiest root/unlock ive ever seen. good luck!
remember, the IRC channel is FULL of great help.
i just followed the steps and now im on lg screen computer not reading the phone and cant get in to fastboot or recovery?
aneyboy said:
i just followed the steps and now im on lg screen computer not reading the phone and cant get in to fastboot or recovery?
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Did you use Fiddy69 root method followed by installing FreeGee from the Play Store? If not you can try LGNPST to stock. Or just take it back for an exchange
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aneyboy said:
i just followed the steps and now im on lg screen computer not reading the phone and cant get in to fastboot or recovery?
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ive had 4 softbricks today from trying various things...one involved 20 mins of panicked button pushing. keep both volume buttons held down and press the power button for long periods of time then waiting a min or so to see if it comes up to download. Hopefully you will eventually time it right and see the blessed download screen...from there get teenybin's bin file for whatever version you have and use that...its a godsend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40176796 - teenybin recoveries
I ran techfanatic's one-click script to unroot and restore my phone (VZW Galaxy Nexus) to 4.2.2 . It simply locked the phone but didn't unroot or restore it to stock. When I power up into the bootloader it says I'm locked, but I still have root access and the custom ROM I installed. I need to revert to stock, unroot, and lock the bootloader so I can return the phone. Please help!
My guess is I can't flash the stock ROM and unroot the phone while the bootloader is locked. So what happens if I unlock the bootloader now? I'm not sure there is any stock ROM on my phone for it to go to after it resets everything in the process. Can I simply unlock it, let it do the reset, then flash stock, unroot, and lock it back up?
I have SDK and the stock 4.2.2 image on my Mac and would love to get it on there.
Thanks
dougbloch said:
Can I simply unlock it, let it do the reset, then flash stock, unroot, and lock it back up?
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do this. however, flashing the stock rom removes root
Zepius said:
do this. however, flashing the stock rom removes root
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Thanks for the quick response. I'll report back on how it goes.
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dougbloch said:
Thanks for the quick response. I'll report back on how it goes.
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Dont forget to factory reset first
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nathajoz said:
Dont forget to factory reset first
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So if I have it right this is what I need to do?
1. factory reset
2. unlock the bootloader
3. install stock
4. unroot
5. lock the bootloader
dougbloch said:
So if I have it right this is what I need to do?
1. factory reset
2. unlock the bootloader
3. install stock
4. unroot
5. lock the bootloader
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You don't need to factory reset first or unroot, since you're flashing stock images, it will flash userdata.img, which will remove all /sdcard/ contents, and system.img, which will overwrite /system, which is where root was. Zepius had already told you this.
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My LG G Pad isn't booting up anymore(just shows a blank screen after LG Logo). It happened after changing build.prop to original one. Is there anywhere to unbrick without being just resetting. If there is anything other than like pushing the update.zip via adb in stock recovery\
Help me please. Thanks
Can you get into recovery mode via HW buttons?
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kilowatt95 said:
Can you get into recovery mode via HW buttons?
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Yes of course. But I'm not currently ready for any resetting as I said. Is there any other way like on my post ?
@Sarun said:
Yes of course. But I'm not currently ready for any resetting as I said. Is there any other way like on my post ?
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If you have a custom recovery, just ignore the reset message - it actually doesn't reset anything if you have a custom recovery otherwise im afraid you are SOL unless you have an earlier nandroid backup
kilowatt95 said:
If you have a custom recovery, just ignore the reset message - it actually doesn't reset anything if you have a custom recovery otherwise im afraid you are SOL unless you have an earlier nandroid backup
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I don't have any custom recovery installed, is there any way to boot to stock recovery?