Hard bricked? - G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Evening all!
Just flashed on the unlocker, got on fine afterwards and everything was running fine and smooth for a few hours, but then I decided to play a game and obviously my phone rebooted because it got overheated, this is usual, but for some reason, I am stuck on TWRP. I cannot get past it, I have tried to flash new firmware on and I have factory reset, but I cannot get back into my phone. Is it bricked? Anyone else hit this wall before??

Not sure. When I had thermal throttling turned off I had a few reboots. Let it cool down and try clicking reboot system in TWRP.

Mahapederdon said:
Not sure. When I had thermal throttling turned off I had a few reboots. Let it cool down and try clicking reboot system in TWRP.
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Cheers man, but It's all cooled down, tried the system reboot options, all of them. Restoring a previous backup.... Nothing seems to be working
Edit: FLASHED AND RECOVERED After the 20th attempt of flashing, it has just finally started downloading the files from the PC for no reason. But it's now on the blue screen and rebooting, so woop! This thread can be killed, sorry for anyone looking at this

SamDH1 said:
Cheers man, but It's all cooled down, tried the system reboot options, all of them. Restoring a previous backup.... Nothing seems to be working
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Sh!t. Have you tried to load a kdz file from the LG flash tool thing.

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Not booting... not sure what happened

So my phone was sitting here on my desk at work, the display was on (very, very low brightness + super dimmed because of that setting in CM9) and it was downloading (via 3G) a ~300mb file for the Mass Effect game that's on sale in the play store today.
Suddenly I looked over at my phone and it was powered off... charging. The only thing I did notice was that it was VERY warm.
I tried to boot my phone up and it got all the way to the lock screen then it shut off. I let it charge for 20-30 minutes then tried again, would not get past the boot animation. I booted into recovery and wiped cache & dalvik in case something crashed... didn't help. Still won't get past the boot animation.
I'm letting it charge for an hour or so then I'll try to boot it up again. If not I'm going to go into recovery and try a complete wipe/flash.
I was running CM9 + franco (ondemand, no OC or UV)
Has anyone had anything like this happen?
Will report back in an hour or so.
Ryjabo said:
So my phone was sitting here on my desk at work, the display was on (very, very low brightness + super dimmed because of that setting in CM9) and it was downloading (via 3G) a ~300mb file for the Mass Effect game that's on sale in the play store today.
Suddenly I looked over at my phone and it was powered off... charging. The only thing I did notice was that it was VERY warm.
I tried to boot my phone up and it got all the way to the lock screen then it shut off. I let it charge for 20-30 minutes then tried again, would not get past the boot animation. I booted into recovery and wiped cache & dalvik in case something crashed... didn't help. Still won't get past the boot animation.
I'm letting it charge for an hour or so then I'll try to boot it up again. If not I'm going to go into recovery and try a complete wipe/flash.
I was running CM9 + franco (ondemand, no OC or UV)
Has anyone had anything like this happen?
Will report back in an hour or so.
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try reflashing the rom.
the CPU does have a set limit for how hot it can get. My guess is downloading that amount over 3G on the charger (my god what were you thinking) made it shut down. Although once cooled down it should have booted right back up.
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ÜBER™ said:
My guess is downloading that amount over 3G on the charger (my god what were you thinking) made it shut down. Although once cooled down it should have booted right back up.
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I download lots on 3G. Regularly. 10gb over the last two weeks, in fact. This has never happened to me.
Ryjabo said:
I download lots on 3G. Regularly. 10gb over the last two weeks, in fact. This has never happened to me.
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same here, i download lots all the time. my guess is that your phone crashed, and since fsync is off by default in franco kernel, your rom or a partition corrupted. if reflashing your rom doesnt help, youll have to flash the factory system image
simms22 said:
same here, i download lots all the time. my guess is that your phone crashed, and since fsync is off by default in franco kernel, your rom or a partition corrupted. if reflashing your rom doesnt help, youll have to flash the factory system image
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I just booted into recovery and flashed a completely different ROM (AOKP). Now it's not going past the "Google" logo (with the lock at the bottom).
I'll wipe and reflash CM9 to see if that helps.
I just noticed something I've never noticed before... after flashing the ROM it says this:
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Fixing fs_size in crypto footer...
Install from sdcard complete.
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What in the world does that mean?
I reflashed CM9 again and now it is booted up.
The battery showed at 5% ...maybe I was a little impatient >.<
I figured 20-30 minutes+ on USB charging would be fine... maybe I was wrong.
Ryjabo said:
I reflashed CM9 again and now it is booted up.
The battery showed at 5% ...maybe I was a little impatient >.<
I figured 20-30 minutes+ on USB charging would be fine... maybe I was wrong.
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sweet
Happens to me once when my kid are playing where's my water. Phone get to bootloop and first i try to wipe caches but no luck, reflash rom without data wipe -> no luck, luckily i have 1 day old nandroid backup i restored it and it started to work.
I quess your phone warms so hot that it needs to reboot and there is some data write at same time so it got some data loss.
jnr21 said:
I quess your phone warms so hot that it needs to reboot and there is some data write at same time so it got some data loss.
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That's a likely explanation, but this has never happened to me before so I was panicking.
Good times.
Ryjabo said:
That's a likely explanation, but this has never happened to me before so I was panicking.
Good times.
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My phone has booted itself many times also, but only once it got data loss.
I think that disabling fsync in kernel increases risk of data loss...
So CM9 is running just fine. This time I didn't flash Franco, probably won't, don't necessarily need to. And holy dogballs... Titanium Backup is truly, truly amazing. I wish I could give the creator a hug.
Anyway, I have noticed that the bars (signal/3G/wifi) have yet to turn "blue" like they normally are. What does this mean?

[Q] Jellybomb start up problems

The problem only happens when I reboot or turn on the phone. When it boots up, I get multiple results. A: It boots up normally (not a problem) B: When it gets to the samsung screen, it freaks out and reboots itself again and again. It's like it's struggling to boot up. One time it got to the gs 3, but then it looped back. C: This just happened today. I booted up and it went pass the samsung screen but when it got to the gs 3 screen, the screen turned a faint pink and it stayed on that screen.
This just happened right after version 8. I know 10 was messed up but on 9 and 11, this problem persisted. Also,I don't think the issue is the phone, since I don't have this problem on other Roms. If I'm wrong please let me know .
Any suggestions, advice, help, etc is welcomed.
Please... i really need help.
I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
Naddict said:
I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
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I unrooted, went back to stock, it did a factory reset so no bugs should have been alive. I re-rooted, made a backup, did a factory reset and wiped dalvik, then I flashed the rom zip and rebooted. It gets stuck on the Gs III screen. I waited like 5 minutes and it didn't move. My battery was at 50% so I just put it on the charger and tried to boot up and it went through to the set up screen for gmail.Just to see if it was coincedental, I did another reboot but this time it got stuck again. It sounds like a system problem but i'm not sure.Like i said earlier, this only happens on Jellybomb.
Any other ideas?
Edit: I've tried switching recoveries but it doesn't fix it.
Sigh.

[Q] N7100 Bootloop, Custom Recovery failure.

It's a problem I've never encountered before.
After charging my phone, I go to my usual routine, facebook-ing. After opening the app, my phone hangs. So, i restarted it. Tried opening facebook again, and it hanged again. Another restart, this time, I didn't open facebook, but tinder instead, still hanged.
To my desperation, I went to recovery to reset my phone, unfortunately, after pressing "wipe all user data"(factory reset), the phone restarted before even finishing the process. Now I'm stuck in bootloop.
Then again, I tried dirty flashing the ROM I used before this madness (DN4), before finishing the format process of the installation, the phone restarted AGAIN.
I don't know what happened to this but I can't get pass "galaxy note II" logo and I can't install any ROMs.
Anyone who have experienced this problem? I've tried any solutions I could think of with no luck. I hope someone could help me with this one. Thank yo u very much.
anyf11391 said:
It's a problem I've never encountered before.
After charging my phone, I go to my usual routine, facebook-ing. After opening the app, my phone hangs. So, i restarted it. Tried opening facebook again, and it hanged again. Another restart, this time, I didn't open facebook, but tinder instead, still hanged.
To my desperation, I went to recovery to reset my phone, unfortunately, after pressing "wipe all user data"(factory reset), the phone restarted before even finishing the process. Now I'm stuck in bootloop.
Then again, I tried dirty flashing the ROM I used before this madness (DN4), before finishing the format process of the installation, the phone restarted AGAIN.
I don't know what happened to this but I can't get pass "galaxy note II" logo and I can't install any ROMs.
Anyone who have experienced this problem? I've tried any solutions I could think of with no luck. I hope someone could help me with this one. Thank yo u very much.
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flash stock through odin. then if everythings works fine you can flash custom recovery and rom again.
Try wiping system and flash again. But Odin seems to be the safest route here.
Mufrad said:
flash stock through odin. then if everythings works fine you can flash custom recovery and rom again.
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super114 said:
Try wiping system and flash again. But Odin seems to be the safest route here.
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The only solution that worked was flashing official rom through Odin. Everything seems to work fine now. Thanks!
Congrats.

This doesnt quite seem like a boot loop... Help?

So my phone has been perfect for over a year. Within the first month of owning it I rooted, installed TWRP, and jumped on CM13. Been updating nightlies all year long once every week or so and enjoying the phone. Its really been perfect. Tonight after work I jump in my car, throw it on my car charger, and drive home. When I get home I notice for some reason I have no cell service (Emergency Call Only) so I reboot. That was the end. The reboot got stuck on the CM boot screen flashing the circle out around the CM face over and over and over. So, I pop the battery, try again, same thing.
Well, being that I have rooted and flashed for years now I figured Id wipe dalvik and cache. Tried that, same thing. Did a full wipe and reinstalled the nightly from my SD card. This time I thought I made progress as it set up all the apps. Then it just hangs on "starting apps" and then it sits there forever. Never boots. Doesnt loop or restart or anything, just says its starting apps.
So, jump on here and find the bootloop issue. My serial is 505x so I was wondering if maybe thats my issue. Decide to download the all in one flash zip from here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-g4/development/stock-h811-20i-images-kdz-flashable-t3308227
and I flash that. Stock rom works without any issue. Fired it up, logged in, no problems. Huh. Do a restart and even though I flashed that file it still shows bootloader unlocked as the LG logo comes up, and boots into TWRP as normal as well. Figured well I flashed a stock rom, lets give CM13 a try again. I download a fresh nightly through my pc and transfer it over via usb so I know its good. Full wipe, flash, reboot, hangs at "starting apps" again.
Now I am lost. The stock rom sucks and my love for this phone is based around what it is with CM installed. Am I missing something here? I really want to get back to CyanogenMod and away from the clunky slow stock rom.
Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you all.
EDIT: Well went through the Android setup steps after flashing the stock rom so I would have a phone until this was all figured out. Turned out its not working. After setup I am not getting "Process System Isn't Reponding: wait or close" No matter what I do the phone is so slow or laggy I cant use it. Its trying to download my apps and restore my phone from my Google account but it just hangs up. No idea what to do at this point. Is my kernel messed up? Its a totally clean flash. What the heck. 3am, I give up, hopefully someone has insight in the morning. Thank you all.
ride1226 said:
So my phone has been perfect for over a year. Within the first month of owning it I rooted, installed TWRP, and jumped on CM13. Been updating nightlies all year long once every week or so and enjoying the phone. Its really been perfect. Tonight after work I jump in my car, throw it on my car charger, and drive home. When I get home I notice for some reason I have no cell service (Emergency Call Only) so I reboot. That was the end. The reboot got stuck on the CM boot screen flashing the circle out around the CM face over and over and over. So, I pop the battery, try again, same thing.
Well, being that I have rooted and flashed for years now I figured Id wipe dalvik and cache. Tried that, same thing. Did a full wipe and reinstalled the nightly from my SD card. This time I thought I made progress as it set up all the apps. Then it just hangs on "starting apps" and then it sits there forever. Never boots. Doesnt loop or restart or anything, just says its starting apps.
So, jump on here and find the bootloop issue. My serial is 505x so I was wondering if maybe thats my issue. Decide to download the all in one flash zip from here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-g4/development/stock-h811-20i-images-kdz-flashable-t3308227
and I flash that. Stock rom works without any issue. Fired it up, logged in, no problems. Huh. Do a restart and even though I flashed that file it still shows bootloader unlocked as the LG logo comes up, and boots into TWRP as normal as well. Figured well I flashed a stock rom, lets give CM13 a try again. I download a fresh nightly through my pc and transfer it over via usb so I know its good. Full wipe, flash, reboot, hangs at "starting apps" again.
Now I am lost. The stock rom sucks and my love for this phone is based around what it is with CM installed. Am I missing something here? I really want to get back to CyanogenMod and away from the clunky slow stock rom.
Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you all.
EDIT: Well went through the Android setup steps after flashing the stock rom so I would have a phone until this was all figured out. Turned out its not working. After setup I am not getting "Process System Isn't Reponding: wait or close" No matter what I do the phone is so slow or laggy I cant use it. Its trying to download my apps and restore my phone from my Google account but it just hangs up. No idea what to do at this point. Is my kernel messed up? Its a totally clean flash. What the heck. 3am, I give up, hopefully someone has insight in the morning. Thank you all.
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You really have to investigate by adb. Look into the dmesg output and logcat as well. Maybe your sdcard is corrupt or 100 other issues are possible as well. What device do you own? H811? unlocked?
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I have rooted my lg g4 h811 and am trying to flash cm 14, after flashing it through twrp, my phone stuck in bootloop. i try o put it in recovery but it only gives me factory reset option which i did several times but still stuck on bootloop. what should i do?
kunate said:
I have rooted my lg g4 h811 and am trying to flash cm 14, after flashing it through twrp, my phone stuck in bootloop. i try o put it in recovery but it only gives me factory reset option which i did several times but still stuck on bootloop. what should i do?
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There are several users reporting that the latest cm version bootloop the best option is to start in download mode and Flash with LGUP Stock ROM.
You could also try to boot into Download Mode and then flash the latest twrp and then Boot into Factory Reset Mode again

How do I get out of Nexus 7 bootloop?

My Nexus 7 2013 tab is stuck on boot animation and not switching on thereafter. I installed a custom rom after flasing TWRP RECOVERY 3.0.2 via P.C and thereafter using the TWRP.
The installation process is successful each time but wont go further than the boot screen. I waited for almost an hour . Evem the Gapps zip is not installing and giving error on log saying that file not mapped. Any way out of this mess? Does it have anything to do with my process? ...I advance wipe the system , data and cache before flashing and the file.
Don't know if you ever figured this out, but last night, mine froze while the kids were playing a game. I couldn't do anything at all. I had to hold the power button down for a while and it finally shut down. I charged it overnight, and all I could get it to do was display the Google screen. I searched and searched for a solution, and the only crazy thing that actually worked was to give it a good whack! I don't know why, but as soon as I smacked it (not on the glass!!), it booted right up as normal. Very odd.
joskur98 said:
My Nexus 7 2013 tab is stuck on boot animation and not switching on thereafter. I installed a custom rom after flasing TWRP RECOVERY 3.0.2 via P.C and thereafter using the TWRP.
The installation process is successful each time but wont go further than the boot screen. I waited for almost an hour . Evem the Gapps zip is not installing and giving error on log saying that file not mapped. Any way out of this mess? Does it have anything to do with my process? ...I advance wipe the system , data and cache before flashing and the file.
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Which rom? Do you use the right gapps? Flash the rom without gapps and look if it's booting
Don't know if you ever figured this out, but last night, mine froze while the kids were playing a game. I couldn't do anything at all. I had to hold the power button down for a while and it finally shut down. I charged it overnight, and all I could get it to do was display the Google screen. I searched and searched for a solution, and the only crazy thing that actually worked was to give it a good whack! I don't know why, but as soon as I smacked it (not on the glass!!), it booted right up as normal. Very odd.
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Holy ****, this worked! Had the same problem last night for the first time (I used it until the battery drained and this morning I got the loop). Smacked it on the back and now it's fully on!
Shame I got desperate and did a factory reset first

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