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While attempting to get HDMI working, I stupidly enabled second screen in developer options in my aosp ROM, which immediately rebooted the phone. I'm now stuck in a loop whereby the phone boots and then restarts when loading the lock screen (presumably it's enabling the second screen).
Is there a simple way of resetting settings to default or bypassing this during boot? I'm away from home else I'd wipe and recover, so any help would be appreciated.
I'm using teamwin recovery if that's relevant.
Try clearing cache, if that doesn't work restore backup.
I think there is a safe mode, not sure how to activate it.
Also, factory reset is possible.
BenPope said:
I think there is a safe mode, not sure how to activate it.
Also, factory reset is possible.
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It can be activated only once the phone is booted afaik.
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Thanks chaps,looks like a recovery cache didn't work. Lesson learned!
So you got out of boot loop or what?
Sorry, to clarify clearing cache didn't work. I ended up wiping and recovering.
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I know this is an old thread but I think I found a solution.
If you wait until the boot animation is already showing and then hold down the buttons like you were trying to boot into recovery it should boot your phone into safe mode. Then you can go into settings and disable the second screen. It may be different on the one x than on my phone though. I have a note 2. I am just trying to keep anyone else who has this problem from having to wipe their device unnecessarily.
captivate999 said:
If you wait until the boot animation is already showing and then hold down the buttons like you were trying to boot into recovery it should boot your phone into safe mode. Then you can go into settings and disable the second screen. It may be different on the one x than on my phone though. I have a note 2. I am just trying to keep anyone else who has this problem from having to wipe their device unnecessarily.
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Instructions:
Restart the phone, After the boot-screen appears, press and hold Vol UP and Vol DOWN keys.
(Tested on GT-N7000 / Paranoid Android)
mshussain said:
Instructions:
Restart the phone, After the boot-screen appears, press and hold Vol UP and Vol DOWN keys.
(Tested on GT-N7000 / Paranoid Android)
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wow, did work !! thank you
So got the gpad and have the urge to flash a custom rom, namely PA rom.
1. Will I be missing any good features from the stock rom? Only thing I can think of now is the remote but no much of a deal breaker.
2. And what is the best way to root?
3. When rooting, does it wipe the device?
Thanks
ermacwins said:
So got the gpad and have the urge to flash a custom rom, namely PA rom.
1. Will I be missing any good features from the stock rom? Only thing I can think of now is the remote but no much of a deal breaker.
2. And what is the best way to root?
3. When rooting, does it wipe the device?
Thanks
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1 you ll be missing the lg apps, lg launcher and some widgets like accuweather's. There is a custom rom that is lg stock based named malladus but it is not updated often i think. Also there is a thread about the lg apps here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2594416, they re being taken from g2's forums and they say that they can be used in gpad but i havent tried them to see if they re working indeed.
2 there are 2 ways for root, kingo root app and dailingrin's method ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2553192 ), i strongly recommend you to use dailingrin's as kingoroot is suspected for stealing data from your tablet. Dailingrin's method is clean and uses adb commands.
3 no it doesnt wipe your device, neither installing a custom recovery does, unless you perform a factory reset
katsika said:
1 you ll be missing the lg apps, lg launcher and some widgets like accuweather's. There is a custom rom that is lg stock based named malladus but it is not updated often i think. Also there is a thread about the lg apps here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2594416, they re being taken from g2's forums and they say that they can be used in gpad but i havent tried them to see if they re working indeed.
2 there are 2 ways for root, kingo root app and dailingrin's method ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2553192 ), i strongly recommend you to use dailingrin's as kingoroot is suspected for stealing data from your tablet. Dailingrin's method is clean and uses adb commands.
3 no it doesnt wipe your device, neither installing a custom recovery does, unless you perform a factory reset
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Thanks for the prompt reply. Are you using a custom rom?
I am, but I am using the LRS G Pad rom that is stock based. If you want to stay like stock then go with that one. If you want a Kit Kat rom there are plenty in the development section that work nicely.
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ermacwins said:
So got the gpad and have the urge to flash a custom rom, namely PA rom.
3. When rooting, does it wipe the device?
Thanks
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Rooting doesn't wipe the device.
However if you are thinking of going to a non-stock based rom then you are best to full wipe the device.
ermacwins said:
Thanks for the prompt reply. Are you using a custom rom?
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i have cm 11, dont know if it's the best but it's the most popular rom. Gpad became faster in speed with more free ram available and less battery consumption than in stock. Although it is in nightly release state it is quite stable. Only issue that bothers me is that sometimes when i open my tablet it gets like frozen and i cant unlock it. The only way is to hard reset it by holding the power button down and then it boots normally after the reset.
I've flashed Mahdi, CM11, Paranoid Android, and Carbon so far. Of those only Mahdi and CM11 are what I would call fully functional. PA is just about there but it doesn't see the external SD card. All of them make the G Pad feel much faster and smoother than stock. You give up the LG Weather widget and the QSlide apps among other things, but almost everything you give up you can find replacements for in the app store.
I initially used dailingrin's script to root, and then a little later I installed TWRP according to the guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551499 . After that I used TWRP to flash PhilZ Touch (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588671) and started messing around with ROMs. As long as you use whichever recovery you install to make a Nandroid backup of the stock ROM before you start flashing new ROMs, you can always go back if you don't like your new ROM.
Its my impression after messing with it for several weeks now that the custom ROMs really unlock the potential of the G Pad's hardware and make using it a much better experience. And since you can always get back to stock with LG's recovery program, you really don't have anything to lose except maybe some time. Its worth the trouble, IMO.
Reference threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554121
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2607333
@katsika I have latest twrp installed and flashed PA all working good. Now flashed an experimental version of PA and stuck on boot logo. I followed the steps in OP to enter recovery and at the factory reset screen. When I press up and up, nothing happens
ermacwins said:
@katsika I have latest twrp installed and flashed PA all working good. Now flashed an experimental version of PA and stuck on boot logo. I followed the steps in OP to enter recovery and at the factory reset screen. When I press up and up, nothing happens
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to enter recovery this is the key combo:
- Press and hold Power Button + Volume Down
- When the LG logo shows up, release the power button only
- Now press and hold the Power and Volume Up button while keeping your hold on the Volume Down button
- When the factory reset screen appears, release your hold on all buttons
- And Select Up and Up Again
katsika said:
to enter recovery this is the key combo:
- Press and hold Power Button + Volume Down
- When the LG logo shows up, release the power button only
- Now press and hold the Power and Volume Up button while keeping your hold on the Volume Down button
- When the factory reset screen appears, release your hold on all buttons
- And Select Up and Up Again
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I've been doing exactly this, when I press up and up again, it still stays on the factory reset screen.
If I choose to do factory reset, will it wipe my nandroid and titanium backup files?
ermacwins said:
I've been doing exactly this, when I press up and up again, it still stays on the factory reset screen.
If I choose to do factory reset, will it wipe my nandroid and titanium backup files?
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Ignore the factory reset dialogue and confirm with the start button and instead of resetting the tablet you will be taken to your recovery
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whoamigriffiths said:
Ignore the factory reset dialogue and confirm with the start button and instead of resetting the tablet you will be taken to your recovery
Sent from my LG-V500 using XDA Premium HD app
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I dont think its working. On the factory reset screen I pressed power btn once then itasked to confirm and I pressed it again but Im still at that screen.
edit: working now with usb unplugged
You probably have tried this but if you do the key combo and you are at the factory reset screen you confirm by pressing the vol up button x 2. If you have the latest twrp it wont perform a factory reset but it will enter the recovery mode. If you cant enter its weird, with version 2.6.3.2 twrp it should had boot into the recovery.
IF everything else fails and you have to use lg's support tool to unbrick it you can enter in download mode and pull your titanium and nandroid backup with adb so that you dont lose them.
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You probably have tried this but if you do the key combo and you are at the factory reset screen you confirm by pressing the vol up button x 2. If you have the latest twrp it wont perform a factory reset but it will enter the recovery mode. If you cant enter its weird, with version 2.6.3.2 twrp it should had boot into the recovery.
IF everything else fails and you have to use lg's support tool to unbrick it you can enter in download mode and pull your titanium and nandroid backup with adb so that you dont lose them.
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Volume up twicw didnt dp anything but pressing power twice with usb unplugged did the job
btw do you also have that thin blue when watching a film?
ermacwins said:
Volume up twicw didnt dp anything but pressing power twice with usb unplugged did the job
btw do you also have that thin blue when watching a film?
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oh my bad, i forgot that you had to press the power button and not the vol up, glad you sorted this out. No i dont have the blue line issue but i have the light bleeding issue on certain backgrounds and brightness setting.
I think I will be returning mine because of the blue line problem and order from another retailer.
Whats the best way to go stock?
ermacwins said:
I think I will be returning mine because of the blue line problem and order from another retailer.
Whats the best way to go stock?
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I have exactly the same question as i m thinking of returning to stock because of a bug in cm11 (everytime i power on the tab it freezes and i have to hard reset it to operate normally again, i ve tried flashing various nighlies and clearing cache and dalvic cache but it keeps doing that). Searchign at forums i found 4 posts of how to return to stock:
1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2622777
2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543350
3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590185
4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471370
Basically 1 and 2 are similar tutorials like 3 and 4, the originals are for g2 but it looks like the procedure works for gpad as well. In 2 and 3 people have reported that it worked for them.
katsika said:
I have exactly the same question as i m thinking of returning to stock because of a bug in cm11 (everytime i power on the tab it freezes and i have to hard reset it to operate normally again, i ve tried flashing various nighlies and clearing cache and dalvic cache but it keeps doing that). Searchign at forums i found 4 posts of how to return to stock:
1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2622777
2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543350
3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590185
4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471370
Basically 1 and 2 are similar tutorials like 3 and 4, the originals are for g2 but it looks like the procedure works for gpad as well. In 2 and 3 people have reported that it worked for them.
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Thanks but why don't you try PA rom or Mahdi?
ermacwins said:
Thanks but why don't you try PA rom or Mahdi?
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i think im gonna flash mahdi, people dont report any strange issues and it is updated quite often.
I flashed CM11 onto mine but it looked too mobile phoney if you know what i mean....i now have the latest Mahdi and so far its brilliant...
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.
Pman said:
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.
Pman said:
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... :/
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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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.
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
Gargat said:
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
n_alvarez2007 said:
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.
Hello guys!,
Sorry If this is a re-post but to be honest I didn't find the solution to my problem in this forum.
So, I have an LG G3 D855 Lollipop 5.0 rooted, with TWRP and flashed ARM sdk21 in order to be able to use Xposed framework and, guess what? right, BOOTLOOP!. Believe me, I read many threads about HOW to access recovery mode or something else and found no quick solution for this problem. ALL that I found was to hard reset to factory settings, to use LG pc suite, flash stock firmware guide, etc, etc. I didn't want to go all the way back to Zero (loosing root), I wanted a quick fix and I found it.
If you get a bootloop (can't get passed LG logo), follow this:
1. Turn off your phone (remove the battery)
2. Put back the battery & close the cover
3. Press and hold the Volume Down + Power buttons together and release them when you see the LG logo on your LG’s screen
4. You must press and hold the Volume Down + Power buttons ONCE AGAIN until you see the ‘Hard reset screen
5. Press the Power button twice in order to confirm hard reset. If you have a custom recovery installed, your phone WON'T hard reset and will boot into recovery mode.
6. From your recovery you can try another framework or just to reset to factory settings.
I got most of the steps from here: http://androidflagship.com/9966-enter-recovery-mode-lg-g3
In my case, I chose another framework (SDK21) and it booted fine without reset anything. The xposed didn't work but I don't mind, I just wanted my cell phone to be working fine with everything installed before trying framework.
If for some reason you can't still get passed from Logo screen, you can check these methods:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/help-stuck-lg-logo-t2831885
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475045
http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
Also, the original method to use Xposed framework is as follows:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
I hope this helped someone. Thanks team.
Regards :laugh::good: