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Bootloop LG G2 Sprint

Hello everyone thanks for checking out my post for assistance.
I was running the OpTimuS 2.2 yesterday when my phone jumped into a boot-loop. The phone will be on for about 20-40 seconds then reboot. During that time I have no service and when I update the profile I get a message that I don't have any service. I can get into recovery and Download mode. I tried to just wipe and install the rom again. That process resulted in the same boot loop. I have a back up but that was done before the "spark" update and I didn't want to restore that because I know there will be an issue with the radio. I downloaded the stock rooted rom but the phone will not stay on long enough to transfer the file and when I try and load via recovery it will not allow me to transfer the file. (never shows up on computer I might be doing that wrong) I then attempted to bring the phone back to stock following this process http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=96 but when I get down to step 13 the program will not respond anymore. I am going a friends house to try on a different computer but I wanted to get this out there just in case that has the same result.
Thanks again for any info that you could provide.

usvi525 said:
Hello everyone thanks for checking out my post for assistance.
I was running the OpTimuS 2.2 yesterday when my phone jumped into a boot-loop. The phone will be on for about 20-40 seconds then reboot. During that time I have no service and when I update the profile I get a message that I don't have any service. I can get into recovery and Download mode. I tried to just wipe and install the rom again. That process resulted in the same boot loop. I have a back up but that was done before the "spark" update and I didn't want to restore that because I know there will be an issue with the radio. I downloaded the stock rooted rom but the phone will not stay on long enough to transfer the file and when I try and load via recovery it will not allow me to transfer the file. (never shows up on computer I might be doing that wrong) I then attempted to bring the phone back to stock following this process http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=96 but when I get down to step 13 the program will not respond anymore. I am going a friends house to try on a different computer but I wanted to get this out there just in case that has the same result.
Thanks again for any info that you could provide.
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Flashing back to stock won't work, I had the same thing happened.......it's the EFS Partition (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451390) If you made a EFS Partition Backup, then flashing that will be your best hope.....I didn't make a backup so I went to sprint cuz I have insurance and they are ordering me a new phone

Shadow_God said:
Flashing back to stock won't work, I had the same thing happened.......it's the EFS Partition (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451390) If you made a EFS Partition Backup, then flashing that will be your best hope.....I didn't make a backup so I went to sprint cuz I have insurance and they are ordering me a new phone
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They replaced it even though your phone was rooted?

Try installing an updated modem for your variant from this thread. It's worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
If you get it working, definitely make an EFS backup right away.

usvi525 said:
They replaced it even though your phone was rooted?
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I used the LGFlashTool to bring it back to stock unrooted.......but my phone had no sevice and rebooted every couple minutes, plus the touchscreen wasn't working either.....I told them I took the Spark update and thats when it happened, he said they had alot of issue with touchscreen stopped working and rebooting issue with the spark update......so they didn't look at it long...lol
I have tried back to stock numbers of times....installing modems....restoring my backups....nothing would get it to work, so I gave up and went to sprint...lol

On the rom you were using, have you tried enabling airplane mode to prevent reboots? You could try to get a stock-based flashable zip on the device if possible.

alone-together said:
Try installing an updated modem for your variant from this thread. It's worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
If you get it working, definitely make an EFS backup right away.
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Thanks for the option. I was able to install the radio but the issue remains.

usvi525 said:
Thanks for the option. I was able to install the radio but the issue remains.
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Have we ruled out the possibility to flash a stock ROM in TWRP? If by any chance you have a USB OTG cable, you could try to connect a flash drive with another ROM.

This is my last ditch effort. Small back story: I somehow wiped EVERYTHING on my G2. EFS partition, ESN, data, SIM info., everything with dialer codes. All of my network information reads "unknown". I tried many methods from here on the forums to get this data back and it turns out I have lost my EFS partition- DNA for the network? I sent it to LG to get it fixed, having done a hard reset and leaving no trace of root. They sent it back without even asking and did no repairs. The note said "board bent". WTF?? How does the user bend the main board, especially when I never opened it? They voided my warranty and ripped off my IMEI/MEID sticker from the back of the phone.
Anyways, I am here with a brick. No network still. Here is what I have done:
1) .tot method to ZVC. Several more times... once to ZV7 where I lost touch capability. Luckily saved my arse with a micro->usb cable and a mouse.
2) attempted to root with ioroot25. Failed because the phone WILL NOT find recovery mode. adb, voldown+pwr then again from power off, and apps are unable to force the phone into recovery mode. I assume it is possible that my recovery mode is deleted?
3) Would have tried all of these "rewrite your efs/imei/etc" things but I can't do any without root. Can't root without recovery, can I?
4) Spent the last two weeks scouring the internet for a fix and going back to my Epic 4G temporarily.
Please help me, has anyone seen this before? Can anyone help me fix it? I am to the point where I would pay to have it fixed. Any experts out there? XDA has yet to let me down... I just need to know if I can fix it or if it is a brick so I can go searching for an old Sprint GS3.
Thanks all,
baublitz

System UI crash evry time it tries to restart after root66 flash

never had this problem first here is all the background information from my last thread (yes i must be challenged)
really I don't know what to do
I believe i need to completely erase everything from my device as i cannot think of what else it could be but some conflicting something somewhere I am not educated enough to know
it flashes fine with odin but always system ui error I will be trying to go back to 4.1X as i believe that was my last bootloader and hope it works out. In all i want to update to NC2 and take advantage of the last roms beuing developed for this device.
In all i want to get my phone working again i need to get and send calls and texts so i plead for help Any question i will answer to the best of my ability
I have flashed with odin 3.1 and 3.07 NC2 then MJC basically both root 66 4.3 roms I don't know what my problem is maybe if while im waiting for help and using a root 66 for 4.1.2 (last working state) i will use recovery to wipe the sd card? idk but in all i think i need to start FRESH as long as i can get my contacts from Google i'm fine (and the phone rings and such lol)
IM eagerly waiting for help!!! someone else who is having a crappy holiday season maybe you can relate when you get in a funk where it seams everything breaks or needs to be replaced at one time
TUIA

You can't flash back to 4.1 with Odin. Root66 performs a full update including bootloader so no downgrade. You probably just need to factory reset with recovery. Just make sure you backup your internal sd

serio22 said:
You can't flash back to 4.1 with Odin. Root66 performs a full update including bootloader so no downgrade. You probably just need to factory reset with recovery. Just make sure you backup your internal sd
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Thanks for sticking in there with me i did a factory reset using the recovery (i guess the android recovery) deleted data and cache which deleted all the apps which were messing things up so now it booted up like a brand new phone my contacts are back via Google and that's all i care ill be installing a rom and such soon but idk im starting over it works and upgrade
thank you a lot for sticking with me serio22 all i can do is thank you for all your posts but if i had the means id buy you a beer or something man

No problem man, glad it's fixed!

BeatnikBandit said:
Thanks for sticking in there with me i did a factory reset using the recovery (i guess the android recovery) deleted data and cache which deleted all the apps which were messing things up so now it booted up like a brand new phone my contacts are back via Google and that's all i care ill be installing a rom and such soon but idk im starting over it works and upgrade
thank you a lot for sticking with me serio22 all i can do is thank you for all your posts but if i had the means id buy you a beer or something man
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...-rendering-t3003534/post58190052#post58190052
Try this

Ota security update 9/29/15

Just did the ota update. Have since rebooted phone twice. Update and phone don't like each other! Chrome keeps auto-closing. And phone is lagging/freezing continuously. Phone was rooted years ago, and never any issues, even upgrading to Kitkat. This one I'm not to sure about!!!!!
Oh, and booting takes about twice looking too!
Keeps getting better...can't download anything from the play store. Says it's downloading, but never goes anywhere.

andygold said:
Just did the ota update. Have since rebooted phone twice. Update and phone don't like each other! Chrome keeps auto-closing. And phone is lagging/freezing continuously. Phone was rooted years ago, and never any issues, even upgrading to Kitkat. This one I'm not to sure about!!!!!
Oh, and booting takes about twice looking too!
Keeps getting better...can't download anything from the play store. Says it's downloading, but never goes anywhere.
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Were you rooted? The last OTA update tried to take away root and it was really hard getting it back. It's acted strangely ever since.

wildbean98 said:
Were you rooted? The last OTA update tried to take away root and it was really hard getting it back. It's acted strangely ever since.
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I took the update against my better judgement and sure enough soft bricked and now phone wont go into DL mode...grrrr

Major issues here as well. My SD card is now blank and doesn't want to mount. Big slowdowns as well. Any way to remove this update ?
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Was finally able to DL apps, but at a crawl. I cleared the cache including dalvik, and everything is back to normal. And I'm still rooted!
I used Cache Cleaner NG from the play store

Soft bricked
I have bricked my phone after accidentally accepting it. Got back the phone again with lg flash tool. Once restarted the phone, rooted it, used titanium backup apk to freeze the software updater.

I don't think that it is wise to do a software update while rooted, it usually denies the process anyways.

Actually guys, its most likely that malware piece that was making its way around. Didnt anyone else read about it a few days ago? Let me hunt it down and see if i can post a link here. Standby....
Update: hold the phone, i may have been mistaken. Standby...
Now im soo broke i cant even pay attention!

ThaHawk said:
I don't think that it is wise to do a software update while rooted, it usually denies the process anyways.
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Hi, rooting a phone does not stop the update anyway since you can unroot very easily, if it is supersu apk. But if a person installed custom recovery, it can brick the phone since the update tries to use the stock recovery. I learnt it in the hard way.

sdivk said:
Hi, rooting a phone does not stop the update anyway since you can unroot very easily, if it is supersu apk. But if a person installed custom recovery, it can brick the phone since the update tries to use the stock recovery. I learnt it in the hard way.
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I stand corrected, your absolutely right!

ThaHawk said:
I stand corrected, your absolutely right!
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Thanks. If you have a rooted lg e980 without custom recovery, you can use quickboot apk to enter stock recovery, which has limited features.
The problem with unlocking bootloader and use custom recovery is, if there is an update, there is no way to relock the bootloader and flash stock recovery. If sombody can shed the light on this matter, i really appreciate it.
I am looking for a way to relock the bootloader and install stock recovery without using lg flash tool.
Not that i am expecting an update from AT&T anytime soon.

+1

its better its included on CM based ROMs also

Note 4 Help!

Like many other sprint users, I experienced serious problems with 5.1.1. This resulted in battery pulls and even a downloading boot. I starting looking into a fix. After flashing about every ROM for sprint N910P on this website, I either result in bootloop or the same problems persist. The problems are as follows:
-Can't boot, so I have to wait ~5 minutes to try again
-Boots straight to downloading, mmc read fail
-Boots fine
-Crashes to black screen around 80-90% battery (back to problem 1)
I cannot figure how to use odin anymore because it fails on nearly every rom I attempt. My reactivation lock is OFF.
I'll try to provide as much detail as I can, but I'm at my wits end with this phone.
Thanks!

If you can Odin OK1 stock tar, there is another root alternative: root stock with Chainfire Auto Root. CFAR has been updated for Android 5.1.1 Note 4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55865442&postcount=3
Custom ROMs will take longer than 5 minutes to boot initially after flash. TWRP has been known to fail to flash or not properly flash after trying repeatedly to flash wrong tar with Odin or flash with reactivation locked. Which, if any, apply to you? I hope it's not hardware failure...
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Chainfire was going to be my next option. I think the first time I attempted using chainfire through odin, it ended in a bootloop. I haven't tried the update version though. I'll give that a shot.
Is there any way to fix this problem with TWRP (delete it and reflash)?
I'm starting to think its a hardware failure, which would suck because knox is tripped and warranty expired a few days ago anyway I believe.

I downloaded the updated CFAR last night to verify it was updated. It's bundled with Odin 3.10.6 Use the defaults with that for stock OK1 tar.
You should know that CFAR is primarily for rooted stock.
If you want a custom ROM, you may have to use Philz CWM touch recovery for Note 4. TWRP just gets inoperative for some time for some users when tars fail in repeated attempts. Philz' seems to flash where TWRP doesn't if that's the case.
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote4/CWM/philz_touch_6.59.0-trlte.tar
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is most likely a hardware problem. I've had two Note 4's do exactly this. Flashed the stock rom on both with Odin, problems still persisted. It would just get random restarts and sometimes boot into "panic mode", whatever that is. The quality control on these phones is terrible. I baby them and never rooted any of them, yet two of them messed up like that, and all 3 of course have GPS issues. If it worked like it's supposed to it would be amazing, my friend has had one since my first Note with 0 issues, super jealous.

I hope its ok for me to post this here i couldnt find any threads on this issue and i didnt want to make new one just for this one problem so i figure i post it here since the post doesnt really point out to nothing specific and its on note 4 thread so i know ill get faster response than if i posted it in help thread ,but if i'm in wrong please feel free to delete this post at once . With that out of the way heres my issue and i hope theres an easy fix for it i was on latest pl1 build of 6.0.1 stock rooted i got tired of playing pokemon so i decided i want my themed look back so i restored my backup of 5.1.1 cog5 build ,everything works fine but my wifi ,its grayed out and when i try to turn it on it stays in "turning on " possition but it never does come on it eventualy goes back to " to see the list of networks turn on the wifi" .Now my question is is there any way to fix this wifi without flashing srock 5.1.1 i know there used to be fix for it back when i was on note 3 but this was yeaaaaars ago and i dont have that file any more thanks a million.

bigbabo said:
I hope its ok for me to post this here i couldnt find any threads on this issue and i didnt want to make new one just for this one problem so i figure i post it here since the post doesnt really point out to nothing specific and its on note 4 thread so i know ill get faster response than if i posted it in help thread ,but if i'm in wrong please feel free to delete this post at once . With that out of the way heres my issue and i hope theres an easy fix for it i was on latest pl1 build of 6.0.1 stock rooted i got tired of playing pokemon so i decided i want my themed look back so i restored my backup of 5.1.1 cog5 build ,everything works fine but my wifi ,its grayed out and when i try to turn it on it stays in "turning on " possition but it never does come on it eventualy goes back to " to see the list of networks turn on the wifi" .Now my question is is there any way to fix this wifi without flashing srock 5.1.1 i know there used to be fix for it back when i was on note 3 but this was yeaaaaars ago and i dont have that file any more thanks a million.
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To fix the WiFi and camera focus, get the bootloader for OG5 from OP in this thread and flash it in Odin.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66352412
The ones labeled firmware are bootloaders. You don't have to flash the whole OG5 stock tar but you still could. Just make sure the flash restores that bootloader and you should be set.
Likewise, you could still restore a MM backup and restore its bootloader.
I think you should backup your keepsakes in internal memory and wipe internal memory before restoring a backup that crosses Android versions. With backups on extSdCard, you could wipe everything but that but I'd think you could factory reset, wipe internal memory plus the Android folder on extSdCard and have a good transition with the bootloader flash. Otherwise, a factory reset would be the minimum step but may leave some residual information you may not need cluttering your memory along with what you want to keep. Seems I recall some having issues coming back to lollipop from MM without wiping internal memory?
Just curious, do you recall what you wiped going back to lollipop?
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Nothing i just go back n forth between lp and mm depending on lvl of interest in pokemon lol i have backups of 6.0.1 and 5.1.1 i just restore backups without wiping it restores fine aside from wifi not turning on i have no other issues
Edit: sorry meant to quote the post above me

bigbabo said:
Nothing i just go back n forth between lp and mm depending on lvl of interest in pokemon lol i have backups of 6.0.1 and 5.1.1 i just restore backups without wiping it restores fine aside from wifi not turning on i have no other issues
Edit: sorry meant to quote the post above me
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Gotcha. Just an old question in the back of my mind from early days of MM. I researched the TWRP thread, the developers recommended a factory reset.
If you've ever noticed internal memory available seemingly smaller than usual, it could be the extraneous folders.
Thanks.
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Phone soft bricked

So I recently had the great idea to root my razer phone after a friend talked me into it, I get the root on but I can't get wifi to turn on, I spend a few hours trying a bunch of different methods to get it working but none of them work. I read magisk can cause an issue, so I delete that and someone says wipe the cache as well in twrp so I do that, switch my slot from b to a and the thing boots straight back to twrp after sitting on the first boot logo for a good 10 minutes. Try the other slot same issue except it boots straight to twrp. So I try and use my backup I made, low and behold its corrupt, at this point I go straight to ****.exe. I try literally everything I can think of and I can't get this thing to take a custom rom, not even a nexbit rom, or a one plus 5t rom. Anyone have any ideas? I've contacted razer and I asked them if there was some way they can fix this without me buying a new phone.

Boltrag said:
So I recently had the great idea to root my razer phone after a friend talked me into it, I get the root on but I can't get wifi to turn on, I spend a few hours trying a bunch of different methods to get it working but none of them work. I read magisk can cause an issue, so I delete that and someone says wipe the cache as well in twrp so I do that, switch my slot from b to a and the thing boots straight back to twrp after sitting on the first boot logo for a good 10 minutes. Try the other slot same issue except it boots straight to twrp. So I try and use my backup I made, low and behold its corrupt, at this point I go straight to ****.exe. I try literally everything I can think of and I can't get this thing to take a custom rom, not even a nexbit rom, or a one plus 5t rom. Anyone have any ideas? I've contacted razer and I asked them if there was some way they can fix this without me buying a new phone.
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First of all, roms from other phones are not compatible with phones other than what it was designed for. If you tried others, that's why it won't boot up. Secondly, if you read all the posting about how do install twrp, it also said there wasn't any way back EXCEPT for your backups. Unfortunately there is no factory images for the Razer phone released as of yet. If you are unable to restore from your backup (or skipped the step and didn't create one) your only choice is to attempt to restore via the backups Xshooter726 made and posted, and if they don't work, you need to wait till the factory images are released and we don't know when they will be out other then a vague "soon" from a community manager on their forums.

Boltrag said:
So I recently had the great idea to root my razer phone after a friend talked me into it, I get the root on but I can't get wifi to turn on, I spend a few hours trying a bunch of different methods to get it working but none of them work. I read magisk can cause an issue, so I delete that and someone says wipe the cache as well in twrp so I do that, switch my slot from b to a and the thing boots straight back to twrp after sitting on the first boot logo for a good 10 minutes. Try the other slot same issue except it boots straight to twrp. So I try and use my backup I made, low and behold its corrupt, at this point I go straight to ****.exe. I try literally everything I can think of and I can't get this thing to take a custom rom, not even a nexbit rom, or a one plus 5t rom. Anyone have any ideas? I've contacted razer and I asked them if there was some way they can fix this without me buying a new phone.
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If you're flashing roms for other Devices but now much experience do you have with flashing etc? Ignoring that fact unless backups from other devices work then youve no choice but to wait for razer to put up full factory images in January and flash those. Razer won't help you as you've voided your warranty.

Roxas598 said:
If you're flashing roms for other Devices but now much experience do you have with flashing etc? Ignoring that fact unless backups from other devices work then youve no choice but to wait for razer to put up full factory images in January and flash those. Razer won't help you as you've voided your warranty.
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I had a decent bit, we only tried to flash another rom after we couldnt find the stock image, it was a last ditch effort.

Boltrag said:
I had a decent bit, we only tried to flash another rom after we couldnt find the stock image, it was a last ditch effort.
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Well you're lucky none worked it could have made your problem a lot worse. When factory images release you can flash those if the backup doesn't work but until then you're out of luck unfortunately.
Side note if razer ask for imie etc don't give them it. Might be able to list the device as have being unlocked etc.