I purchased a used Verizon LG G3 from someone online. It has Verizon all over the device; however, whenever I turned it on, US Cellular popped up on the screen. The guy told me all I had to do was call Verizon and they would activate the phone.
I contacted Verizon, and they said there was nothing they could do. I talked to a friend of mine and he said that it looked like they flashed the phone with a US Cellular firmware as the device is a VS985 but it is showing up as US990 on the firmware. I have tried flashing it back to a stock firmware of Verizon using the FlashLG Tool and stock *.tot file to which it fails and just says device model is different.
My question is, is there anything I can do to fix this or is this phone basically a paper weight?
I'm kind of new to this, so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Try flashing 24b using the KDZ method...
[Guide] LG G3 Stock Firmware (Go Back to Stock) KDZ & TOT Method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
... w/ the file located here:
http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda%2FLG+G3%2FStock%2FVerizon+VS985%2F
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I GSM unlocked my Sprint LG G3 to use on T-Mobile. Everything worked great until I tried to load a stock T-mobile firmware. Phone hard bricked. I ran through a guide to unbrick the phone. The last step is to load the tot file using LG Flash tool. Every time I try to do this I get a CrossDL D581 to LS990. From reading the only solution I've found is to change the hex in the first line of the tot file to make Flash tool think it is loading the D581 tot file. Does anyone know what this change would be or another method to get this phone up and running again? Or...since phone is unlocked and was working on T-Mobile with H+ speeds a way to load a T-mobile firmware? Thanks
any solution to this question?
Flash KDZ to Sprint Variant
Long story short is I had a lot of problems with rooted sprint and ended up having to flash the verizon KDZ on it. This fixed all my problems but obviously I can't use it with sprint service now. Anyway I don't care about that but I am curious since I will still use my G4 as a media device until some method to restore sprint software comes around (if ever).
Can I flash any of the other KDZ files on my phone too? Or only US variant kdz will work?
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Hi guys in urgent need of your opinions. When I went to an LG service centre after my phone died they replaced my mobo (E988 Singapore) with an E980 one. Soon after before I managed to root and unlock its bootloader I checked through the device details and the funny thing is that I realised it doesn't tally with any AT&T or non-AT&T E980 models as the model number was just listed as E980 and if I remember correctly the version number for the firmware listed it as an EU device?
I went forward with modding the phone and everything went well until recently when I tried to switch recoveries from CWM to TWRP. Unfortunately due to the confusion regarding my hardware (whether it was really an E980 or E988) I mucked up the process and am left with soft bricked device. Any ideas how to fix this? I don't know which KDZ file to flash for my situation. Please help me solve this as I really need to use the device urgently.
I think you'd be fine just treating it as an e980 and flashing back to stock
So I should just use any of the E980 kdz? I don't wanna risk hard bricking the device but I'll try it when I get the chance.
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Batteries from other LG G4s can be used. The sticker wouldn't matter. Only 5.1 can be rooted
If it is vs986 it can't have the bootloader unlocked.
This is the problem, my hardware info shows it's vs986 but sticker on back says h811. Also in software info it shows modified.
Its rooted but bootloader is blocked, can I flash international kdz ?
If yes how? Coz I tried using LG up it doesn't work.
Did you download the LGUP with the new DLL file? (on my phone and will post link soon). Does anywhere on the phones back cover in or out say that model? Where'd you get that phone from?
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