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Problem with alot of heros and no fix found USB/ADB

i have seen a problem with alot of heros and mine, to do with when it is connected to computer the drop down menu doesn't appear for sync or mount sd card. i have tried everything and nothing works, the only way you can connect to pc is through fastboot i've tried to -
- checked enable debugging
- update my recovery (thought it was a bad flash)
- reflash radio roms (thought it was a bad flash because someone else had this problem)
- updated hboot
- updated roms
- tried a few different usb cables
- drivers up to date and reinstalled ( mojos post) edit
anyone know what i could do to totally wipe my phone and start again? like original radio, rom, hboot, recovery. thanks in advance for help, i know quiet a few people could do with the help.
Solution found!
i dont know how it worked but it did,
- i installed a 2.1 eris rom which got things rolling on the phone
- installed the new htc sync that was taken from the legend in this post! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653351
- returned back to madaco 3.2 and works perfectly!

Try re-installing the drivers on your computer.

hmm maybe a stupid and too simple suggestion, but are you using any kind of task killer app ? try ignoring the pc sync process,
worked for me,
regards Wouter

Sparra said:
anyone know what i could do to totally wipe my phone and start again? like original radio, rom, hboot, recovery.
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Install an RUU.
Regards,
Dave

Sparra, i'm having this problem also. Extended discussions have been happening on Modaco too.
foxmeister: you can't instal an RUU if you can't get the phone connected via USB

thanks people, going to try killing pc sync task dont think it will work though maybe will, yeah cant install ruu because phone doesnt connect to computer if you look at OP.

i had the same problem with my phone, had to send it in for repair as even after flashing the RUU update in fastboot i couldnt get anything

crashd said:
Sparra, i'm having this problem also. Extended discussions have been happening on Modaco too.
foxmeister: you can't instal an RUU if you can't get the phone connected via USB
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there is a thing call micro sd card reader.
before ur phone crash do u did a nandroid backup? if u do pls try restore to the previous one =)

i would of done this but my original nandroid backup was lost!! , wonder if anyone elese has an original unbranded nandroid backup? would be good to try.

From what I can see, you CAN flash roms (updated recovery/hboot etc). ADB is working?
My guess is that you're using one of the Eclair based roms, in which usb-pc didn't work.
Try downloading mountusb from the market.

Yeah sorry i can flash roms through recovery, but no adb, computer doesn't recognise the phone.
I can connect in fastboot and all works to pc in that, I have modaco 3.1 and have used all versions of his Rom, problems started around version 2.5 or so.
Ive also tried mount usb! Might have to send back to htc!

If you put your phone into fastboot and connect, can you then run an RUU against it?
Regards,
Dave

Try another computer and see if it works

If your doing this at work, a lot of companies stop the USB ports from working.

Tried another computer and doing the ruu in fastboot, its my home pc so all usb ports work, ok pretty sure its the phones software and not a hardware problem! Thanks for suggestions!

Yeah. It's a software issue, as you can use the HEROIMG.ZIP method (search here or modaco) from the microSD when you hold vol.down + power. You also get normal fastboot. So no hardware is broken
But... Nothing I've seen mentioned can fix it. Flashing seems to do nothing. I guess there is some NAND somewhere that needs a wipe/reflash (probably the same NAND that stuff like the IMEI is stored in, but that's just a guess at the architecture). If we could find the NAND, we could compare a dump between a broken and working phone and see...

Yeah sorry i can flash roms through recovery, but no adb, computer doesn't recognise the phone.
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it doesn't see it or says "no drivers found"
which os are you using
i can charge and usb mount even without drivers ...

It doesn't know what it is so doesn't install correctly. It's Windows 7 I don't have an issue with the druvers it worked fine before.

See http://android.modaco.com/content/h...om/300825/usb-device-not-recognized-solution/ on modaco. It's worth a shot, but bear in mind I think it will wipe /data. Might be hard to do a nandroid before though with no SD (as many people experience with this issue)

Well, I have the same problem with my hero and I have original rom, my hero isn't even rooted...

[Q] Kindle Fire wifi won't turn on at all

hey everyone,
I normally don't post on here because I find the info without needing to, but I can't find this even with google fu, any help appreciated
Problem: Wifi won't turn on
ROMs tried: Orignal Kindle ROM, CM 9 (hashcode make), CM 9 (Energy mod ICS)
Other notes: My methods worked on my other KFs, but not this one.... however its an older version. I was sure to make everything factory default, wipes the two caches, and out of frustration from TeamWin deleted everything on the flash and system (except TeamWin Obviously). I have the Android SDK setup to interface with the device, so if you need me to hit it from there let me know. Everything else works, but a wifi only tablet without wifi is useless in my book.
Thanks once again for any help I will go back to google fu'n and head to wall bashing

Well can you mount your sdcard in twrp? If so transfer this to your sdcard http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 wipe everything except your external storage and flash it. Maybe this will help isolate whether this is a hardware issue.

hmm
Thepooch said:
Well can you mount your sdcard in twrp? If so transfer this to your sdcard http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 wipe everything except your external storage and flash it. Maybe this will help isolate whether this is a hardware issue.
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Thanks for the quick reply, will give this one a shot and hopefully it works
Edit/update:
I can mount the device in TWRP, however it will not mount when I boot the ROM. Also adb is apparently not running on the device? Did these commands:
adb kill-server
adb device
and device not listed.

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initialhit said:
Thanks for the quick reply, will give this one a shot and hopefully it works
Edit/update:
I can mount the device in TWRP, however it will not mount when I boot the ROM. Also adb is apparently not running on the device? Did these commands:
adb kill-server
adb device
and device not listed.
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update: got a terminal emulator on the device while I waited for the download (I already had the apk). One thing peculiar is it cant find wlan0... which I can on my other one. Also usb is still a no go unless from TeamWin. Still waiting on the ROM.

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initialhit said:
update: got a terminal emulator on the device while I waited for the download (I already had the apk). One thing peculiar is it cant find wlan0... which I can on my other one. Also usb is still a no go unless from TeamWin. Still waiting on the ROM.
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ROM flashed to device, kept having Google android process fail and restart causing major pains... so I couldnt even check the wifi. Using the Kindle Fire Utility I reflashed Gapps and rebooted, it locked up, so I wiped the caches and whatnots and put the ROM in Factory reset mode from TWRP. It looks like for sure the wifi NIC is fried... going to have to just send it back and have them send me another one... one final thing is I am downloading the latest factory ROM for this device and flashing it with it to see if that works, and if not then the people I am sending back to wont know the wiser lol. Thanks for giving ideas nonetheless yall!

initialhit said:
ROM flashed to device, kept having Google android process fail and restart causing major pains... so I couldnt even check the wifi. Using the Kindle Fire Utility I reflashed Gapps and rebooted, it locked up, so I wiped the caches and whatnots and put the ROM in Factory reset mode from TWRP. It looks like for sure the wifi NIC is fried... going to have to just send it back and have them send me another one... one final thing is I am downloading the latest factory ROM for this device and flashing it with it to see if that works, and if not then the people I am sending back to wont know the wiser lol. Thanks for giving ideas nonetheless yall!
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Did the factory ROM flash correct the issue or still a no-go for WiFi?

Hey guyz.. i solve the issue!..
if your system version is lower the the the latest version:
just download the update img in amazon kindle. using PC. then copy to kinlde directory..and after updating the wifi works..
if latest version:
downgrade the kindle using KFHD_SRT_v1.2.3.zip and a fastboot cable.
then apply the above process.

kibusaki said:
Hey guyz.. i solve the issue!..
if your system version is lower the the the latest version:
just download the update img in amazon kindle. using PC. then copy to kinlde directory..and after updating the wifi works..
if latest version:
downgrade the kindle using KFHD_SRT_v1.2.3.zip and a fastboot cable.
then apply the above process.
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Wrong device. Wrong forum.

[Q] Serious help fast!

ok so heres what happened. forgot my phone was rooted. i tried tmobile ota update. kicked me out into twrp. i messed aroun and bascily now i have no os or anything. i accidentally formatted everything in the phone. its the white 32gb tmobile version if that matters. to make things worse, i use ubuntu 14.04 LTS. no windows. cant even figure out how to get windows on the pc. and no i cant go buy it. noodle budget. i also messed with the fat32 thing and it said unable to make fat32 partition. basicly. its screwed. i need to know what to do about this. i have the lg flash tool, the original .dll and .tot ready to go. but theres the linux thing. everytime i try to connect it to the computer in download mode it said could not mount adroid device or something like that, now it wont even come on for me. i dont know what to do about this. no i couldnt get adb sideload to start, i couldnt mount in download mode, i could get adb to recognise the device but thats about it. i pushed a couple roms to it but nadda. after installing succesfully it just went right back to twrp. i need a video or something that i can slightly understand on how to fix this.

Your best bet is to set up a virtual box and virtualize it. I guess in twrp if you can still get access to it. Is to wipe system and all that fun stuff so it can reformat it to ext4 then try to adb sideload the rom that matches the update as close as possible. The only thing I can think of is that the update messed up partitions so when you flash a rom it can't all fit like it used too.
Sorry if I didnt help I'm just trying my method I had to do when I had my g2
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NexusBarry said:
ok so heres what happened. forgot my phone was rooted. i tried tmobile ota update. kicked me out into twrp. i messed aroun and bascily now i have no os or anything. i accidentally formatted everything in the phone. its the white 32gb tmobile version if that matters. to make things worse, i use ubuntu 14.04 LTS. no windows. cant even figure out how to get windows on the pc. and no i cant go buy it. noodle budget. i also messed with the fat32 thing and it said unable to make fat32 partition. basicly. its screwed. i need to know what to do about this. i have the lg flash tool, the original .dll and .tot ready to go. but theres the linux thing. everytime i try to connect it to the computer in download mode it said could not mount adroid device or something like that, now it wont even come on for me. i dont know what to do about this. no i couldnt get adb sideload to start, i couldnt mount in download mode, i could get adb to recognise the device but thats about it. i pushed a couple roms to it but nadda. after installing succesfully it just went right back to twrp. i need a video or something that i can slightly understand on how to fix this.
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Same situation happen to me, Im praying for someone to give me debrick.img so I can boot this G3 . This SD Card method but we need a working LG G3 that can give us that debrick file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660566

help fast!
xmagiicsx said:
Same situation happen to me, Im praying for someone to give me debrick.img so I can boot this G3 . This SD Card method but we need a working LG G3 that can give us that debrick file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660566
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i dont have any windows keys nor any way to get it. so can u explain have to use virtual box to do that?

Just download a Windows img either that or use wine to emulate Windows apps on Ubuntu is a secondary option
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This is my situation as well. No OS. Can't get a ROM to flash successfully via SD card. Bumping this thread for some serious assistance. What do we do?

weekendbiggs said:
This is my situation as well. No OS. Can't get a ROM to flash successfully via SD card. Bumping this thread for some serious assistance. What do we do?
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Did you read the suggestions that were given in the thread?

doktor buknasty said:
Did you read the suggestions that were given in the thread?
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you should be able to download a windows 7 and use for 30 days for free. after 30 days, you still can extend it to another 30 days. that should be enough to get you phone back

Wow... reading OP was like a mirror into my own experience except I am on W81 I have tried in every way imaginable to fix this issue with LG Flashtool and it constantly tells me that it can't boot into download mode even though it is already set into it. What other options are there to fix things? I am at wits end..

nekoarashi said:
Wow... reading OP was like a mirror into my own experience except I am on W81 I have tried in every way imaginable to fix this issue with LG Flashtool and it constantly tells me that it can't boot into download mode even though it is already set into it. What other options are there to fix things? I am at wits end..
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You must have Windows Virtual Box if running Linux, Ubuntu, Solaris, or Mac. Start HERE. It can be tricky for some, you may want to read this whole page before attempting.
sent from my LG G3

joeyhdownsouth said:
You must have Windows Virtual Box if running Linux, Ubuntu, Solaris, or Mac. Start HERE. It can be tricky for some, you may want to read this whole page before attempting.
sent from my LG G3
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I don't need a VM I have windows 8.1 installed native on my PC.

nekoarashi said:
I don't need a VM I have windows 8.1 installed native on my PC.
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I misread, sounds like driver issue, have you tried to see if phone is recognized in ADB?
sent from my LG G3

[Q&A] [RECOVERY] CWM Recovery 6.0.5.1.2

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Full backup of one AFTV and restore on another
It's great to see that modstore was able to clone an AFTV.
I dont understand what modstore is saying here:
modstore said:
I'm not sure if anyone has tried backing up one Fire TV and restoring to another, but I just tried it, and all seems good.
Doing the restore though, changed the registered account to that of the backup. So I'm not sure if it would have been registered properly, probably not. But I changed it to the account I wanted it registered too, and all seems good now.
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Changed what registered account? Does this mean that the new AFTV was setup to have the same amazon account as the backed up AFTV before the restore took place on the new AFTV?
I really want to be able to clone. It sounds like its possible, I just want to avoid the trial and error if possible. I'm sure others are interested in the procedure too.

eville84 said:
It's great to see that modstore was able to clone an AFTV.
I dont understand what modstore is saying here:
Changed what registered account? Does this mean that the new AFTV was setup to have the same amazon account as the backed up AFTV before the restore took place on the new AFTV?
I really want to be able to clone. It sounds like its possible, I just want to avoid the trial and error if possible. I'm sure others are interested in the procedure too.
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Yes, from what he said that the registration info went over with the backup. If you want to clone machines, then this will work.
he didn't want to clone machines, so he had to put in the correct register info on the machine he put the backup on.

nyder said:
Yes, from what he said that the registration info went over with the backup. If you want to clone machines, then this will work.
he didn't want to clone machines, so he had to put in the correct register info on the machine he put the backup on.
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There might be a way to make it trigger the initial Registration page after doing a restore of a clone. I'll add it to my list and maybe come up with a special update.zip that will make it happen.

So if you have a FTV set up with xbmc etc you can make a direct copy of it into a stock FTV, thus cloning it as said above?

I've looked around and can't seem to find what to do. I've used adb before but have never ran into this issue yet seems so silly.
When I type "su" in adb shell i get this error "system/bin/sh: su: not found"
I've googled and all I can find is reinstalling the superuser on the phone... I'm trying to unlock the boot loader

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I've looked around and can't seem to find what to do. I've used adb before but have never ran into this issue yet seems so silly.
When I type "su" in adb shell i get this error "system/bin/sh: su: not found"
I've googled and all I can find is reinstalling the superuser on the phone... I'm trying to unlock the boot loader
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You need root first. What fw are you on? If it's a rootable version, do that first and then follow the guides for updating here.

Yea figured it out. I'm on 1.3.0 this sucks. I'm trying to sell my amazon box to get a nexus player. Amazon has no idea how to run a home media center.

Thanks!

Bricked mine. Cant boot into recovery anymore using keyboard. Any tips ?
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patt2k said:
Bricked mine. Cant boot into recovery anymore using keyboard. Any tips ?
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What guide, and which step of said guide, were you running through that you bricked it?
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0p3nsrc said:
What guide, and which step of said guide, were you running through that you bricked it?
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Guide from AFTVNEWS.
I got recovery to work everything was fine I could reboot from recovery back to recovery again (CWM) but after I did factory reset in CWM it gets stuck on amazon logo.
The reason I did factory reset was because of Error.7 in CWM I had that few times when flashing different roms on different phones/tablets
sometimes getting older cwm or simply factory reset would help.
So now it gets stuck on Amazon logo the keyboard trick to get back into CWM does not work anymore.
Anything else I can try before I call up amazon hoping they replace it ?

I can honestly say if you followed rbox's custom recovery install guide, used his recovery image, and made sure the md5 matched, you shouldn't have had any problems.
Out of curiosity, do you have an external hard drive plugged in?
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0p3nsrc said:
I can honestly say if you followed rbox's custom recovery install guide, used his recovery image, and made sure the md5 matched, you shouldn't have had any problems.
Out of curiosity, do you have an external hard drive plugged in?
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Yea I did follow instructions correctly. And no I do not only had the usb keyboard plugged in so I could get into recovery.
Almost every device I rooted w/ custom recovery gave me Error 7 tablets phone etc.. I seem to have bad luck with that error lol.
Since I was on the very last step.. flashing rom -> getting error 7 grr

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Yea I did follow instructions correctly. And no I do not only had the usb keyboard plugged in so I could get into recovery.
Almost every device I rooted w/ custom recovery gave me Error 7 tablets phone etc.. I seem to have bad luck with that error lol.
Since I was on the very last step.. flashing rom -> getting error 7 grr
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I think cwm still has some issues. It works fine for installing rbox's pre-rooted ROMs, but I can't backup my ftv. It always errors out.
Was this the first time you've gone through cwm install? Did you try installing one of his custom ROMs and then got that error? Did you verify that your recovery download went okay? Check the md5 against what's listed on the site.
I know it's a lot of questions, but I'm just trying to delve deeper to see what may have caused your error.
(I'm tech support, so I've always got more questions to ask )
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0p3nsrc said:
I think cwm still has some issues. It works fine for installing rbox's pre-rooted ROMs, but I can't backup my ftv. It always errors out.
Was this the first time you've gone through cwm install? Did you try installing one of his custom ROMs and then got that error? Did you verify that your recovery download went okay? Check the md5 against what's listed on the site.
I know it's a lot of questions, but I'm just trying to delve deeper to see what may have caused your error.
(I'm tech support, so I've always got more questions to ask )
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Yes sir everything was checked few times. Bunch of times made sure even file size is correct etc...
I did install recovery however at first when I had wrong firmware I installed via ADB SHELL then I Downgraded to unlock bootloader after I downgraded I installed recovery via adbfire I think newest version .17 however it was still the newest firmware of recovery anyway.... and yepp it was stock pre-rooted latest firmware that ends with "0" that did not require the fire tv boot menu.. but now I am thinking if I had the boot menu I could have got into recovery! so AFTVNEWS mis-lead me on this part... the bootmenu would be great on all firmwares actually.

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Yes sir everything was checked few times. Bunch of times made sure even file size is correct etc...
I did install recovery however at first when I had wrong firmware I installed via ADB SHELL then I Downgraded to unlock bootloader after I downgraded I installed recovery via adbfire I think newest version .17 however it was still the newest firmware of recovery anyway.... and yepp it was stock pre-rooted latest firmware that ends with "0" that did not require the fire tv boot menu.. but now I am thinking if I had the boot menu I could have got into recovery! so AFTVNEWS mis-lead me on this part... the bootmenu would be great on all firmwares actually.
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I'm not sure about adbfire anything. I do all mine through Linux/android terminal/windows command line. The boot menu works on firmware 51.1.4.0. When it's sitting at the logo, have you tried connecting via adb, just to see if it initialized enough to poke around? (not sure if it works that way with ftv, but I'd try, regardless)
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I'm not sure about adbfire anything. I do all mine through Linux/android terminal/windows command line. The boot menu works on firmware 51.1.4.0. When it's sitting at the logo, have you tried connecting via adb, just to see if it initialized enough to poke around? (not sure if it works that way with ftv, but I'd try, regardless)
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As far as I saw I could only connect via adb at least when in recovery mode.. otherwise it was a no go... anyways thanks for helping me out. I think there is no rescue in this situation by somehow fixing it. I mean just wanted to have few features like swap storage with a flash drive and have newest FW. But that's ok.
Thanks for your time!

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As far as I saw I could only connect via adb at least when in recovery mode.. otherwise it was a no go... anyways thanks for helping me out. I think there is no rescue in this situation by somehow fixing it. I mean just wanted to have few features like swap storage with a flash drive and have newest FW. But that's ok.
Thanks for your time!
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Sorry I couldn't be of more help :/ the issue you'll probably see is that unlocking the bootloader voids any warranty with amazon.. So I'm not sure what amazon may or may not do for you.
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About the possible Lollipop ROM for FireTV,is there a way to get the latest qualcomm Adreno 320 drivers like [email protected] from another device for flashing in proper FTV directories since it is meant for Lollipop?
I am hoping for the fix for Dolphin to be runnable and Reicast to no longer cause reboots,as well as better performance for things like Mupen64Plus AE.

gprorecovery.apk

Where can it be found?

Found and installed. Now just have to figure how to get into recovery?

edekalil said:
Found and installed. Now just have to figure how to get into recovery?
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1) If you have ADB, connect, allow adb and adb reboot recovery
2) Hardware key combo: Volume Up & Power until LG screen appears, then Volume Down twice, then Power (yeah, looks like game cheat code but it really works)

I thought I had the drivers loaded because I could see my phone in explorer but I must not have the drivers loaded.now how can I find the adb drivers and how do I set them up? Every time I think I am getting somewhere I get thrown way back again. All I want to do at this time is reload the firmware so I can access the ext sd card witch was lost while trying to root and install cwm. I am about to throw this **** aginest the wall wall that way this will be fixed for good.

Use LGUnifiedDriver, it should install both adb and LG drivers

Where can I get a clean download of it? I am running windows 8.1 . I do have a pc with windows xp as well just havent used it in a while.

LG's support site I think, I still use old version, from first time I've flashed something via LGFlashTools.. You can download that and LG Support Tool from there too.

I have the lg support tool installed as well as the lg pc suite and lg flash tool. I will give it a shot using the lgunifidedriver. I wonder when I origanly tring to root and install cwm and then lost the ability to access the ext sd and not being able to boot into recovery. Could it have made my phone not recognizably? I can see the phone in win explorer when plugged in. The pc does not recognize it in device manager. It says it has no drivers.
Other than that the phone works normal (makes calls,receives calls,and such.).

edekalil said:
I have the lg support tool installed as well as the lg pc suite and lg flash tool. I will give it a shot using the lgunifidedriver. I wonder when I origanly tring to root and install cwm and then lost the ability to access the ext sd and not being able to boot into recovery. Could it have made my phone not recognizably? I can see the phone in win explorer when plugged in. The pc does not recognize it ino device manager. It says it has no drivers.
Other than that the phone works normal (makes calls,receives calls,and such.).
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That sounds like Windows problem more. You don't have any of those all-in-one driver packs for Android devices installed? How did you root it?

Well I read to use lg support tools to install drivers then used geefree app to root checked with root checker witch said it was rooted ok then used gprorecovery.apk to put cwm on it. Witch said it installed sussfully. After I had it done I noticed I could not access the ext sd card nor boot into cwm. I read on anouther android forum about a felle who had the same issues and someone said the geefree app caused the issues with the ext sd and not booting into recovery.the phone all works fine except for the issues. I figured if I could return back to stock 4.4.2 witch it is on now it should be back to stock and I could try again from the beginning. I also read something about not using a 3.0 usb in windows 8.1 to use a 2.0 usb port. I'll have to see what usb port is what on my laptop. I hope this is all making sense.

edekalil said:
Well I read to use lg support tools to install drivers then used geefree app to root checked with root checker witch said it was rooted ok then used gprorecovery.apk to put cwm on it. Witch said it installed sussfully. After I had it done I noticed I could not access the ext sd card nor boot into cwm. I read on anouther android forum about a felle who had the same issues and someone said the geefree app caused the issues with the ext sd and not booting into recovery.the phone all works fine except for the issues. I figured if I could return back to stock 4.4.2 witch it is on now it should be back to stock and I could try again from the beginning. I also read something about not using a 3.0 usb in windows 8.1 to use a 2.0 usb port. I'll have to see what usb port is what on my laptop. I hope this is all making sense.
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Return it back to Jellybean if possible, use old Jellybean root metod available in the forums, install Freegee and flash TWRP from there, and later update it to newer TWRP on forums. Freegee is a step you can't avoid because it's the only way we can unlock our phones (that I know), and their TWRP doesn't support SDCard (not sure about CWM, but I think it also had that problem, it was long time ago I've used it). E980 can get a bit shady, but it's a great phone, so don't lose your patience yet.

Thanks for the info. I belive I have the drivers installed now, I can see the phone in the device manager of windows and it looks to be good. I will keep you informed as to how it go's.

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Well I got the drivers loaded last night and dod tht lg flash tools tot program to put it back to 20g rather than 20h. Got root and installed cwn just need to see what it takes to get philz if so the first time it did not take. Anyway all is working except my xda apps. Other than that all is good so far as soon as I can figuer and get the phillz working I will search for some roms to put on it. The problem wsa the loose nut behind the steering wheel. I had the phone plugged into a 3.0 usb not a 2.0 and my IT friend helped me with how to deal with windows 8.1 so now I am sorry for all of my aggrovating all with my crazy rantting. So Thanks to all for putting up with me. And thanks to youSquirl man.

edekalil said:
Well I got the drivers loaded last night and dod tht lg flash tools tot program to put it back to 20g rather than 20h. Got root and installed cwn just need to see what it takes to get philz if so the first time it did not take. Anyway all is working except my xda apps. Other than that all is good so far as soon as I can figuer and get the phillz working I will search for some roms to put on it. The problem wsa the loose nut behind the steering wheel. I had the phone plugged into a 3.0 usb not a 2.0 and my IT friend helped me with how to deal with windows 8.1 so now I am sorry for all of my aggrovating all with my crazy rantting. So Thanks to all for putting up with me. And thanks to youSquirl man.
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You're welcome, I'm glad I've helped.
About Philz recovery, I think you have full info on it's thread. If you need some more help, I'm around somewhere

Thanks again.