So my brother gave me his old G3 which never turned on again after 1 year or less of use, I believe the problem it had was the LG famous black screen or whatever, I never had a LG phone of my own, but I heard something about it and that it happens to up to the G4 (G5 maybe). I took it to a repair shop and they got it to turn on and make it functional, but it didn't last much longer than a month, it then started freezing completely to the state it's now, which turns on but then it freezes after 10 seconds or something.
I doubt this has anything to do with the software, but still I don't miss anything by trying. So far I've tried installing a custom ROM but there is a problem, it has no recovery nor fastboot installed, I don't even know how this is possible, and I know this is the case because when I try to access any of both I get the LG logo with some white letters on the top left saying some kind of boot security error.
I tried installing the fastboot img through my pc with sdk tools but idk if either the file was corrupted or what but I couldn't make it work (tested multiple I believe), and without the fastboot I can't install a custom recovery.
So I'm hearing any suggestions you guys might have before throwing this phone already.
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**UPDATE:** so I have managed after many tries to unbrick my phone. So I have unbricked it using kdz method.
No the weird thing is that the phone works fine while in the charger, but when I take the charger off it shuts itself off and starts getting into a bootloop again.
I really don't care any more about my data, I just wanna get my phone normal again.
Any idea what to do?
So I have installed fulmics rom 2 days ago in my phone. At first it seemed great but after couple of hours it started having some problems (when entering the snapchat it just shutdown). It really annoyed me so I decided install a new kernel . I downlaoded xceed kernel and just flashed it and hoped it will succeed.
After that every thing got ****! The device just showed the LG logo and restarted and than showed it again.
I didn't know what to do than I searched a little bit and I connected my device, and using adb sideload transfered cloudy rom(of course I did wipe before flashing it).
After I flashed the room every thing seemed great, it took time and in the setup there was a step where you "restore" you device. (Google service).
I chose the apps I wanted and while it was proccessing it just shut down and again started showing the lg device and restarting it self.
I am really lost, I dont know what to do, I trying ****ing every thing.
Thank you guys.
Same here and still dont know the answer
I'd advice you to read carefully on the rom you want to flash before flashing so you know exactly what to expect. While your phone is busy stuck in bootloop, try connecting it to the charger and let me know what happens.
Hi All,
My Nexus 5x 32 GB phone suddenly died on me last night. The situation as of now:
1. Cannot boot normally. Shows Google logo and everything goes dark.
2. Can boot into Fastboot with holding down power and volume down buttons
3. But not able to go into recovery. When I select Recovery in Fastboot mode, it just tries to reboot and the screen stays dark. Nothing happens.
4. The bootloader is locked. I think OEM protection in Developer tools is on, so not able to unlock bootloader through Fastboot commands.
What an I do?? Factory reset would be great, if option is there.
Please help!! Thanks.
Try to flash Factory image by command adb and fastboot if your pc recognized your nexus 5x
unlock oem if necessary After
Funny enough, I've got a very similar issue
I can boot into recovery though, but there's a catch, and I think it applies to everything past boot, the phone freezes and restarts after like 3-5 seconds.
I can't boot to system, as it takes way too long to boot up, but I can only see the first panel of the recovery before it dies and restarts.
I have flash official images, and even TWRP recovery to see what I can do, but this doesn't work out in the long run, as the issues are ever persistent
Thanks for the quick replies!
Tried everything, including Nexus toolkit... But nothing worked. So I finally took it to service center as its still in warranty. They said the problem is hardware related and it might have happened because of recent update. They also said they have been getting lots of phones with this problem. So they they are replacing the motherboard free of cost. Wish they could have given a new phone
Once again, thanks all!
Dude that's wild, this same exact issue literally happened to me 2 weeks ago while I was on tour. Was on 7.1.1 (Pixel ROM to be specific) and my 5X just died on me out of nowhere. Absolutely the same things happening here, would boot up, go black, and then start bootlooping. Could access fastboot, but I couldn't get into recovery. Called Google and got a replacement because it was definitely hardware failure and I was still under warranty (just a few days past a whole year). I wonder if the new 7.1 betas are breaking peoples' phones
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
LG said if I have rooted my device, then it's not covered by warranty, and a 200-300 dollar (AUD) repair fee
I wonder if I can get this done free of cost though, I'm not the first person to have used this phone
Scratch. said:
LG said if I have rooted my device, then it's not covered by warranty, and a 200-300 dollar (AUD) repair fee
I wonder if I can get this done free of cost though, I'm not the first person to have used this phone
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Have you tried flashing the stock images? If you can get to fastboot, you can flash the stock image and unroot your phone. You should also then be able to lock your bootloader (if it is unlocked) and then do your warranty at that point.
I only have been using stock images
root is not a problem, as itis indeed not rooted.
no matter what image you would boot, fhe system will crash after a few seconds, freezeframing whatever on display, be it the recovery icon, or the beggining of the boot animation
so people saying android 7.1.1 brooking devices, so will that be safe to upgrade the phone from 7.0 to 7.1 .1 when stable release will be available ?
Scratch. said:
I only have been using stock images
root is not a problem, as itis indeed not rooted.
no matter what image you would boot, fhe system will crash after a few seconds, freezeframing whatever on display, be it the recovery icon, or the beggining of the boot animation
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Sounds like the hardware bootloop issue that has been hitting 5x devices hard lately. Mine started looping last week and I had to send it in.
Are you still within your 1 year manufacturer's warranty? If so, you can call LG and report the issue to them. Your device may get fixed, but it was also reported Thursday that LG has started issuing full refunds because they ran out of the needed part.
The company have started offering refunds
https://www.neowin.net/news/lg-to-issue-full-refunds-to-customers-with-faulty-nexus-5x-handsets
I picked up my UK V30 H930 yesterday all fine and saw that LG have unlocked the bootloader on my model so I went ahead and tried it along with trying the alpha TWRP build
So I thought id write about what went wrong and how I recovered from it.
I made the mistake of letting the phone auto update to 10v software verion before I did this. As I had 10f on before when I bought the phone.
I went to load in all the software needed to unlock the bootloader and proceeded to do so but in my haste of the user data being wiped taking a longer then I thought it would I unpluged the phone to try "fastboot flash unlock unlock.bin" again . No such luck already unlocked. It booted back in fine so I thought everything was ok but that was the moment I thought could have caused my entire night to be ruined.
I thought with the bootloader saying it was unlock it was now fine to flash TWRP on now so went to do that and discovered it would no longer boot into the rom anymore coming up with the LG V30 Logo and just staying put. Thought it must be my 10v software version messing it up. Ok ill try to flash a 10f stock kdz. After about an hour or so of 'Finding my feet' with the phones boot methods for download mode, Fastboot and recovery I found that twrp was being strange with mounting the phone tried otherways eventually got the phone talking to the pc by using uppercut with LGUP and having the phone in download mode and the port com channel in device mananger set to com 41. After about 4 tries of flashing KDZ's to the phone it would just come with a "erasing" circle and proceed to get stuck on boot logo again so I messed about with .dlls and tried to other methods. Still nothing.
Now I tried LG Bridge's "Update error recovery" and I was actually talking to the phone for the 1st time so i let it do its thing which took well over an hour to download the kdz file. "Fine just work please". it got to the updating stage at 5% and froze and the phone being in download mode hadnt done a thing. I tried again but still nothing. Eventually now at 6am and having been up all night I went to give up but I manged to get it on to fastboot mode and by chance came across "flashing lock_bootloader" tried and it and it locked tthe bootloader back up (this thing of LG saying it cannot be undone must be rubbish?) now before I tried anything I rebooted the phone . IT BOOTED! onto the fresh 10v KDZ i had installed on it but before anything I wanted to see if it would now run with a unlocked bootloader on its own with no TWRP installed. It works! Now i just need a method of rooting but im now ready at least.
Hope this helps anyone with simular troubles.
Also had some trouble yesterday after trying out some Magisk modules.
On reboot it sometimes got stuck in the LG V30 screen, and sometimes even the bootanimation came up, but it didnt finish the boot lol
Only installed and adblock btw, and tried the Xposed module. Uninstalled that again btw. Now only using Adblock.
Phone also seems to need Power + Vol- to force shutdown for me, not only Power like other phones. Also didnt manage to find a way to boot into recovery when the phone is off, only found a way to get into the factory reset screen ?
sadly i dont have a working sdcard currently (my 3 year old 128GB one is read only for some reason, atleast changes dont get applied), so ill wait for a new one to mess around more ^^
Also working on a LOS14.1 build atm (it compiled, but didnt adapt all parts of thr device tree yet, and no idea if i have all vendor files lol)
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Also had some trouble yesterday after trying out some Magisk modules.
On reboot it sometimes got stuck in the LG V30 screen, and sometimes even the bootanimation came up, but it didnt finish the boot lol
Only installed and adblock btw, and tried the Xposed module. Uninstalled that again btw. Now only using Adblock.
Phone also seems to need Power + Vol- to force shutdown for me, not only Power like other phones. Also didnt manage to find a way to boot into recovery when the phone is off, only found a way to get into the factory reset screen
sadly i dont have a working sdcard currently (my 3 year old 128GB one is read only for some reason, atleast changes dont get applied), so ill wait for a new one to mess around more ^^
Also working on a LOS14.1 build atm (it compiled, but didnt adapt all parts of thr device tree yet, and no idea if i have all vendor files lol)
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Ive just managed to get 10f on so ill retry flashing twrp now.
Are you sure your sdcard doesnt have a little read/write switch on it . Im sure i remember so of them used to have one.
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Ive just managed to get 10f on so ill retry flashing twrp now.
Are you sure your sdcard doesnt have a little read/write switch on it . Im sure i remember so of them used to have one.
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nope, doesnt have one. Neither windows nor Linux fail at writing on it, or when deleting files, but as soon as I re-insert the SDCard all changes are reversed. Formatting doesnt work anymore, unknown error. Tried that in Windows, Linux and in the Phone (Androids formatting crashed, TWRPs produced an error after it timed out)
So my phone has been this way since Nov 2017, there are files that I need access to and would truly appreciate some guidance
I was experiencing issues with the bluetooth on nextbit previously so I installed a new rom after flashing the device. Once the rom also gave issues I decided to revert back to the Nextbit 7 OS and one fine day when the phone restarted it wouldnt go past the "nextbit" splash screen. Tried installing the OS again however the PC wouldnt recognize the phone anymore, switched laptop to a Mac and got the same issue
Any help would be greatly appreciated
It wont let me post a URL link. I have taken www out hopefully it allows to view the video, shows exactly whats wrong
youtube.com/watch?v=ImIk5CErWf0
It looks there's something wrong with the system boot, since it's reaching the blue boot-animation and it stays there (probably before loading the adb stuff). Fortunately u did unlock the bootloader and that annoying initial screen may be helpful this time, did u try to reach recovery or fastboot mode from there (pressing some volume key)? It's pretty hard for it to be broken there too and in such a case I would think about some hardware fault. Anyway from the recovery (I hope u have TWRP, if not install it with fastboot) you should be able to do whatever u want, including recovering your files or (re)installing a rom
Hi Everyone,
I have a 5T running android 9 - completely stock. The device is SIM free, I have never customised it at all - if anything it's never been connected to a PC even.
A few days ago I was using my phone as normal (on whatsapp) but it completely froze. It now boots up to the "Your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted and may not work properly" - it freezes on start up and won't work at all.
- I can get to the fastboot screen
- I can get to the recovery screen to install from ADB
The fastboot screen says in red - device state - locked.
The device is a clean, un-customised phone. Only a few days prior I checked for any OTA updates but I haven't received android 10 yet.
I haven't flashed phone firmware or anything for years now. (By years, I literally mean years - back in the Nokia 8210 days). My only other experience of flashing firmware was with Samsung phones and 'debranding' them.
As I was not trying to root the device or anything - how do I fix this issue? I've searched the forums but I cannot fine a scenario similar to mine therefore I'm a bit confused as to what to do to resolve it.
I've tried to sideload this - oneplus.com/uk/support/softwareupgrade/details?code=PM1574156155944 via recovery but it says installation failed.
Any help appreciated thanks!
Sounds like you're straight out of luck to recover any data if your device is completely stock, as to unlock your bootloader to access encrypted data would mean a factory reset. You could try try one of the unbrick tools using the guide here. You will lose your data.
I tried the unbrick tool here - forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/how-to/oneplus-5t-unbricking-tool-confirmation-t3733012
... and it doesn't work. The phone now boots to a blank screen with a constant white LED.
Could this be a hardware issue?
I'm not too concerned about losing my data - already gave up on trying to keep my data when the problem first occurred!
After the 4th use of the unbrick tool (each time it completes successfully) I was finally able to boot into the phone.
I got as far as setting the region but then it wouldn't find any wifi networks. It then completely froze on this screen and is now back to "your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted" and will continually try to boot and freeze on the oneplus logo. Sometimes it will boot to a blank screen with a white LED.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm definitely suspecting a hardware issue now...
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After the 4th use of the unbrick tool (each time it completes successfully) I was finally able to boot into the phone.
I got as far as setting the region but then it wouldn't find any wifi networks. It then completely froze on this screen and is now back to "your device is corrupt and cannot be trusted" and will continually try to boot and freeze on the oneplus logo. Sometimes it will boot to a blank screen with a white LED.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm definitely suspecting a hardware issue now...
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Problem fixed?
unfortunately not. Any ideas on next steps?
That's an odd issue for sure. My only idea would be installing TWRP and maybe formatting from there and using fix permissions etc. to see if it has any effect.
I've done some googling to try and understand "TWRP" but I'm not sure I fully understand. Are there any forum posts I can refer to?
- phone has been flashed several times
- before this whole saga dev mode was enabled, but only to reduce animation scale - USB debugging was never enabled
- the phone has always been stock / sim free - never rooted
Thanks
Can you get into recovery? If yes then try connecting to a pc whilst in recovery as it should let you open your phones internal storage on PC but im not too sure if stock recovery allows it, (TWRP) does. Then copy whatever files you need. Let us know if you can get into fastboot mode aswell
It sounds similar to an issue I have just experienced with a friends 5T. In my case it's a hardware issue (seems like Wi-Fi has died). Just for kicks try to flash the Android 7 firmware. For some reason it allowed me to boot the phone fine and use it, albeit without any Wi-Fi. I sideloaded OOS 4.7.6 and that seems to be the last version 7. You could also use the older unbrick software. Academic I fear as I think you have a hardware issue.