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[Q] How to enter recovery mode using key combination?

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.

[SOLVED] How do I boot into stock recovery?

From a full power off, how do I boot into stock recovery? I've tried multiple button configurations and none work.
EDIT:
I called T-Mobile and they said:
1. Power off
2. Press and hold the Vol - and Power button until the LG boot screen appears.
3. Release the Power button ONLY. Do not release the Vol - button.
4. After 1 second, press and hold the power button again. You should see the white recovery screen.
Use the Vol+/- to navigate and Power to select.

This brought up a Factory data reset menu on my H815.

Brings up factory reset on T-mo version H-811

That is the LG factory recovery.

thank you this worked

With a Verizon model, I had to keep holding both Power and Vol - until the recovery screen appeared. If I released and then re-held Power, as described above, it did not work.

When I hold down power and vol down, it boots to an IMEI display screen. It shows a long barcode. Can't get to recovery with the hold, release and hold down again the power and volume down buttons. Frustrating.

I love you so much right now. It boots into what appears to look like a default LG G4 factory reset page. For me, i clicked reset, and then yes, and surprisingly it brought me to where i wanted to go. TWRP Recovery.

THANK YOU!!!

amd206 said:
I love you so much right now. It boots into what appears to look like a default LG G4 factory reset page. For me, i clicked reset, and then yes, and surprisingly it brought me to where i wanted to go. TWRP Recovery.
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I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!

gonsa said:
I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!
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This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.

joesee said:
This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.
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oh no!
how come it has different outcomes..
sorry to hear that.
Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk

gonsa said:
oh no!
how come it has different outcomes..
sorry to hear that.
Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
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The difference was that you have twrp recovery and he didn't. The question pops for both, but for those that have the original recovery it will do the factory reset.

worked
worked for me, but the first screen is the one where it ask if i want to factory reset, i had to pick YES, then again confirm, and then i was in TWRP

gonsa said:
I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!
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joesee said:
This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.
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And I get a factory reset as well on my H811, even though TWRP was already installed and working on the recovery partition.
Something else funny going on, the OS seems to kill TWRP after the next one or two boots tho. Maybe I need to set the TWRP option to allow change of the system partition to read/write? (Since apparently it writes something there that prevents the OS from killing the custom recovery after it's been installed)

Exabyter said:
And I get a factory reset as well on my H811, even though TWRP was already installed and working on the recovery partition.
Something else funny going on, the OS seems to kill TWRP after the next one or two boots tho. Maybe I need to set the TWRP option to allow change of the system partition to read/write? (Since apparently it writes something there that prevents the OS from killing the custom recovery after it's been installed)
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I've learned a lot with LG phones over the past few weeks.
The biggest thing is.. when you first flash over TWRP, you HAVE to reboot into recovery before you try rebooting the system, or else the bootloader will overwrite the TWRP install and replace it with the factory recovery.img. (You probably already know this.) To make sure it boots into TWRP first, since fastboot doesn't have a "reboot-recovery" command.. I just pull the battery then do the button combination to boot directly into TWRP. Doing this allowed me to say "YES" to the question "Do you want to factory reset the phone".
I don't know how many times I've wiped my phone because of this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. reboots (tries to hold the finger combo but failed - and didn't know it)
3. gets asked question - "do you want to factory reset the phone"
4. I hit YES expecting it to take me to TWRP - but instead it wipes the phone and puts stock recovery back on.
Just do this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. PULL THE BATTERY
3. Use finger combo to boot recovery.
4. When asked "do you want to factory reset the phone" - hit YES
5. TWRP boots in like 5 seconds.
This has worked now for my G4 and my V10 since they both have this issue. The V20 however does not (my current phone) - so hopefully LG is done with this crap!!
Good luck!

joesee said:
The biggest thing is.. when you first flash over TWRP, you HAVE to reboot into recovery before you try rebooting the system, or else the bootloader will overwrite the TWRP install and replace it with the factory recovery.img. (You probably already know this.)
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What was happening on my H811 was that it was either corrupting the recovery partition afterwards or just invalidating it or something because instead of getting back the stock recovery, I'd get the scary "broken robot" screen when trying to boot into recovery.
joesee said:
To make sure it boots into TWRP first, since fastboot doesn't have a "reboot-recovery" command.. I just pull the battery then do the button combination to boot directly into TWRP. Doing this allowed me to say "YES" to the question "Do you want to factory reset the phone".
I don't know how many times I've wiped my phone because of this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. reboots (tries to hold the finger combo but failed - and didn't know it)
3. gets asked question - "do you want to factory reset the phone"
4. I hit YES expecting it to take me to TWRP - but instead it wipes the phone and puts stock recovery back on.
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The technique I've learned to appreciate (which apparently is a new thing, and is now the suggested method for installing via fastboot according to the twrp.me website) is to load a copy of TWRP into RAM to do the flashing and rebooting. ("fastboot boot [TWRP_IMAGE_NAME]")
I try to avoid battery pulls as much as possible but I have never relied on them on a phone the way I have done over the last week (just had my G4 for about a week now) due to these funky mechanisms that LG has for getting into recovery/bootloader/download mode.
joesee said:
Just do this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. PULL THE BATTERY
3. Use finger combo to boot recovery.
4. When asked "do you want to factory reset the phone" - hit YES
5. TWRP boots in like 5 seconds.
This has worked now for my G4 and my V10 since they both have this issue. The V20 however does not (my current phone) - so hopefully LG is done with this crap!!
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TBH I am fearful of even trying it now. (Especially since I just read about how a nandroid backup done from TWRP doesn't backup anything on the /data partition, either.. )
Which makes me even more appreciative of LineageOS's "advanced reboot" power button menu. :good:
One of the problems in my view with this LG system is that it can be very difficult to reliably press both the power and volume at the same time on this phone due to it's unusual placement of those buttons. Much harder than on a phone with those buttons on opposite sites of the device. Not to mention this silly "press both these, then release one, then 1s later press that one again" stuff.
And due to the way they designed these sequences, which among other things often have no way to easily escape them (can you imagine having this on a phone with a non-removable battery?? ), but worse, have defaults that progress to another state without any user interaction (because of the limitations of this control logic - eg, if you boot to bootloader but can't escape and don't do anything in 2 minutes, the device automatically reboots), I personally have to wonder if this doesn't make a significant contribution to the infamous bootloop issues that lots of people are having with recent LG's like the G4, G5, V20, etc.
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Good luck!
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Thanks.

Enter recovery on 20B?

Hi, I'm having a major problem getting into recovery via the power-on+vol-down key combination on MM (20A/20B) - under no circumstances can I get into recovery from cold boot - I can reboot into TWRP recovery when the phone's booted, but recently I've had a couple of bootloops which never enter the OS and so I'm stuffed - both times all I could do is use LGUP to reflash 20B kdz and then re-root etc etc. I'm assuming under MM the key sequence has changed, or is it because I have an unlocked bootloader the sequence is different? I've owned a G2 and G3 and know the "normal" sequence of hold power+vol-down, wait for the LG logo and release then power+vol-down again, but this doesn't seem to work on a Marshmallow G4 (I've tried 100 times with different wait periods on the release etc)....
Its a real PITA not being able to cold boot into TWRP/recovery so can someone advise what the sequence now is (and PLEASE don't reply to tell me its "hold power+vol-down, wait for the LG logo and release then power+vol-down again"!).
Thanks!

I have the same issue and I had been running into same situation to entirely reflash my phone in order to get it boot again. The key combination never worked for me while on 20B; really frustrating if you run into whatever problems requiring to recover through TWRP and not being able to do so.

key combination working me....
If not
adb reboot recovery
Or if phone rooted.
Play store rebooter app

russtyd said:
I've owned a G2 and G3 and know the "normal" sequence of hold power+vol-down, wait for the LG logo and release then power+vol-down again
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And it never came to your mind, that maybe the entry to recovery might be different to an LG G3 or G2?
The way to enter recovery is:
Hold Vol- and Power until LG Logo appears
Release ONLY Power button for 1 sec
Then press it again and hold it
Recovery entered
I guess google can save lifes And nerves!!!!
Cheers bro
EDIT: Btw this has nothing to do with Marshmallow, Lollipop etc. It's the usual way to enter recovery on a G4 And I didn't read the OP entirely. It seems like you just had the wrong sequence. This one works for me on Masrhmallow 20B!

Follow_and_Feel said:
And it never came to your mind, that maybe the entry to recovery might be different to an LG G3 or G2?
I guess google can save lifes And nerves!!!!
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Thanks... It did occur to me it might be different (which in the end is why I posted here!)... and I had googled, and the sequence is so stupidly close to the G2/G3 sequence its easy to see now the error of my ways (why the h*ll did LG have to change one key in the sequence)!
Thanks for the quick response Bro

russtyd said:
Thanks... It did occur to me it might be different (which in the end is why I posted here!)... and I had googled, and the sequence is so stupidly close to the G2/G3 sequence its easy to see now the error of my ways (why the h*ll did LG have to change one key in the sequence)!
Thanks for the quick response Bro
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You're very welcome! I have to admit, that it's really stupid to change it slightly from model to model, yeah :laugh:
I had to google it myself and needed several attempts to get it right. But now we both know and we can enter recovery whenever we want :good: Merry Christmas and a happy new year bro

Follow_and_Feel said:
And it never came to your mind, that maybe the entry to recovery might be different to an LG G3 or G2?
The way to enter recovery is:
Hold Vol- and Power until LG Logo appears
Release ONLY Power button for 1 sec
Then press it again and hold it
Recovery entered
I guess google can save lifes And nerves!!!!
Cheers bro
EDIT: Btw this has nothing to do with Marshmallow, Lollipop etc. It's the usual way to enter recovery on a G4 And I didn't read the OP entirely. It seems like you just had the wrong sequence. This one works for me on Masrhmallow 20B!
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Thanks for your heads-up. Unfortunately if i try this combination a screen appears "Factory data reset" asking "No (Exit)" or "Yes".
Now I would assume if I enter "Yes" it would boot into recovery, but I am not sure whether this will completely wipe my phone.
Can anyone confirm that I´m on the right path here?

GalaxyFan88 said:
Thanks for your heads-up. Unfortunately if i try this combination a screen appears "Factory data reset" asking "No (Exit)" or "Yes".
Now I would assume if I enter "Yes" it would boot into recovery, but I am not sure whether this will completely wipe my phone.
Can anyone confirm that I´m on the right path here?
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Hold on. There are 2 options. If you installed recovery properly (I bet you did), indeed, clicking on "yes" will boot you into recovery. If you're a monkey, just like I was, and DIDN'T install recovery properly, yes, it will just wipe your data.
But that's the usual way to hardware-button-boot into recovery
How did you install it? There's an easy way to check if everything is set up correctly. Use this app to boot into your recovery from within android.
If it boots you into recovery then everything is set up straight and you can boot into recovery with hardware buttons a 100% by clicking "yes" and "yes" in the "stock" recovery.
EDIT: I know that's an awkward way, but it's the right 1 Cheers

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Hold on. There are 2 options. If you installed recovery properly (I bet you did), indeed, clicking on "yes" will boot you into recovery. If you're a monkey, just like I was, and DIDN'T install recovery properly, yes, it will just wipe your data.
But that's the usual way to hardware-button-boot into recovery
How did you install it? There's an easy way to check if everything is set up correctly. Use this app to boot into your recovery from within android.
If it boots you into recovery then everything is set up straight and you can boot into recovery with hardware buttons a 100% by clicking "yes" and "yes" in the "stock" recovery.
EDIT: I know that's an awkward way, but it's the right 1 Cheers
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It worked! Thank you mate! :good: :highfive:

GalaxyFan88 said:
It worked! Thank you mate! :good: :highfive:
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You're very welcome :highfive:

OTA failed, now cannot boot into stock recovery or system

EDIT: For the solution to this particular issue, head to this post.
Hi, yesterday I successfully did a clean install of OOS 4.0, including Magisk and systemless root. I had everything set up as I wanted it.
Today, I tried the 4.0.1 OTA, after using a Canadian VPN server. It downloaded fine (the full zip), and I launched the OTA.
Phone reboots... into nothing. Now the phone won't boot into recovery mode, or start the system. I thought it was odd, so I flashed stock recovery again (which is what was installed). Still can't boot. Then tried just booting into recovery over fastboot mode. Still no luck.
Then I managed to boot into a modded TWRP. That's something... But tried flashing the OTA from its temp location in TWRP. A couple of "command log" errors, but appeared to patch nonetheless.
Reboot to system though: black screen of nothing, again.
Anyone know what might be the issue, and why it happened after just launching an OTA through the stock dialogue?
Cheers :/

same problem here. i don't want to wipe the phone. Really a BIG problem to do it all over again for me :S and i don't even have a backup man. wtf.

abobobilly said:
same problem here. i don't want to wipe the phone. Really a BIG problem to do it all over again for me :S and i don't even have a backup man. wtf.
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I feel your pain, brother! Can you get into fastboot mode okay?
I'm lucky that I have a 3.2.8 Nandroid backup on my Mac (if I can push it to the sd card -- had some issues doing that over adb lately!). I also have my app data backed up separately. So I'm happy to do a clean install of OOS 4.0/4.0.1, but as yet I can't even launch stock recovery to do so.
Weird.

ememeh said:
I feel your pain, brother! Can you get into fastboot mode okay?
I'm lucky that I have a 3.2.8 Nandroid backup on my Mac (if I can push it to the sd card -- had some issues doing that over adb lately!). I also have my app data backed up separately. So I'm happy to do a clean install of OOS 4.0/4.0.1, but as yet I can't even launch stock recovery to do so.
Weird.
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Fastboot works just fine. I also tried flashing that blu-spark twrp recovery, hoping it would atleast decrypt data, so i could take some backup or something. But nothing is working. The phone keeps booting back in recovery no matter what i do, and when it doesn't ... it just stucks at 1+ logo.

abobobilly said:
Fastboot works just fine. I also tried flashing that blu-spark twrp recovery, hoping it would atleast decrypt data, so i could take some backup or something. But nothing is working. The phone keeps booting back in recovery no matter what i do, and when it doesn't ... it just stucks at 1+ logo.
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I can get to a point of backing up if I want to. Though at the moment, I don't know what I'd backup (maybe just the system partition? I dunno).
I have the same thing: Can get the white 1+ logo, both capacitative button backlights show, the android text logo, but then black screen. Very frustrating. Let me know if you have any luck! I'll update here too.

wierd
i got the boot.img from the zip file flashed it in recovery, not in boot , it worked, but since then while flashing messed up recovery,somehow i have stock recovery now, i can boot into bootloader and recovery but device doesnt get recognised in bootloader ,cant flash twrp modified nor can flash supersu 2.79SR1:crying::crying:

canceric said:
i got the boot.img from the zip file flashed it in recovery, not in boot , it worked, but since then while flashing messed up recovery,somehow i have stock recovery now, i can boot into bootloader and recovery but device doesnt get recognised in bootloader ,cant flash twrp modified nor can flash supersu 2.79SR1:crying::crying:
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Hokay, so let me recap a little.
I updated to OOS 4.0 from 3.2.8, and the only problem after a successful flash was that TWRP was not decrypting the storage, hence i wasn't able to root. I didn't touch anything after that, and kept the phone on same TWRP.
Just now, when i downloaded 4.0.1 OTA (using TurboVPN > Germany), i updated it right away, thinking it'd flash the stock recovery itself. Except, it didn't ... and what happened afterwards, we both know well.
Anyway, after trying A LOT of recoveries, this recovery seemed to work. Search for "recovery_OBT8N.img" ... its the stock recovery for oneplus 3. I flashed it in fastboot, then used 'fastboot boot recovery_OBT8N.img" command to directly boot the recovery. It worked, as the phone continued to update normally. Yay ... i guess.
Then later it was showing "Decrypting" message (after entering my PIN, ofcourse) ... but remained stuck upon completion. So I hard rebooted via long pressing power button ... and voila ... the phone booted just fine after that.
Well, here's my story. I really don't want to get into the trouble of rooting this sh*t for now. I have work tomorrow and i am already 4 hours late for sleep lol. So ... Good Night my friend. Thanks for your support.

abobobilly said:
Hokay, so let me recap a little.
I updated to OOS 4.0 from 3.2.8, and the only problem after a successful flash was that TWRP was not decrypting the storage, hence i wasn't able to root. I didn't touch anything after that, and kept the phone on same TWRP.
Just now, when i downloaded 4.0.1 OTA (using TurboVPN > Germany), i updated it right away, thinking it'd flash the stock recovery itself. Except, it didn't ... and what happened afterwards, we both know well.
Anyway, after trying A LOT of recoveries, this recovery seemed to work. Search for "recovery_OBT8N.img" ... its the stock recovery for oneplus 3. I flashed it in fastboot, then used 'fastboot boot recovery_OBT8N.img" command to directly boot the recovery. It worked, as the phone continued to update normally. Yay ... i guess.
Then later it was showing "Decrypting" message (after entering my PIN, ofcourse) ... but remained stuck upon completion. So I hard rebooted via long pressing power button ... and voila ... the phone booted just fine after that.
Well, here's my story. I really don't want to get into the trouble of rooting this sh*t for now. I have work tomorrow and i am already 4 hours late for sleep lol. So ... Good Night my friend. Thanks for your support.
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good thing it worked for you, it bugs me that i cant root the phone since the device doesnt get recognised in fastboot ,reinstalled all the drivers and all, nothing works

So latest update:
Following @abobobilly 's advice, I found this version of the stock recovery: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224405665
Flashed it in fastboot mode
Then booted it from fastboot mode.*
From there, I chose to update via sideload, and flashed the update 4.0 over adb.
"Install success"!
I've booted up into the system now, and everything is as I left it! Such a relief. (Don't have root anymore, but can sort that out.)
*At that point, the stock recovery loads (thank the lord...) and informed me that the update failed. Fine, don't care!

ememeh said:
So latest update:
Following @abobobilly 's advice, I found this version of the stock recovery: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224405665
Flashed it in fastboot mode
Then booted it from fastboot mode.*
From there, I chose to update via sideload, and flashed the update 4.0 over adb.
"Install success"!
I've booted up into the system now, and everything is as I left it! Such a relief. (Don't have root anymore, but can sort that out.)
*At that point, the stock recovery loads (thank the lord...) and informed me that the update failed. Fine, don't care!
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How did you actually reboot? i get the message that says success, and then when i select reboot, it says reboot now and i get no option other than "no"

Shayded said:
How did you actually reboot? i get the message that says success, and then when i select reboot, it says reboot now and i get no option other than "no"
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I had the same issue. The recovery seems to be a bit weird. I did it the old fashioned way: hold the power button till it forces itself off, then boot up

ememeh said:
I had the same issue. The recovery seems to be a bit weird. I did it the old fashioned way: hold the power button till it forces itself off, then boot up
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Tried this, now the phone wont turn on at all, slow red LED (battery was at 70%). Holding the power button results in the PC its connected to recognizing it with a sound, but nothing else happens

Shayded said:
Tried this, now the phone wont turn on at all, slow red LED (battery was at 70%). Holding the power button results in the PC its connected to recognizing it with a sound, but nothing else happens
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Weird. Could be a different problem...
Did you get the install success message?

ememeh said:
Weird. Could be a different problem...
Did you get the install success message?
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Yes, then when it wouldnt let me reboot i forced the shut down and now the phone is unresponsive

Shayded said:
Yes, then when it wouldnt let me reboot i forced the shut down and now the phone is unresponsive
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Can you still boot back into fastboot and/or recovery?

ememeh said:
Can you still boot back into fastboot and/or recovery?
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It's unresponsive. It doesn't turn on, it doesn't vibrate and it doesn't give a charging LED.
This is as bricked of a phone as I've ever seen
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Edit: Nevermind? After playing around with button combinations it booted back into recovery somehow. Guess it's salvageable

Shayded said:
It's unresponsive. It doesn't turn on, it doesn't vibrate and it doesn't give a charging LED.
This is as bricked of a phone as I've ever seen
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Sorry to hear that. It's unlikely, but could be a battery issue if there was a major drain. So keep it on charge. (It may well be charging without the LED anyway.)
If not tried already, try launching fastboot mode manually with the power/volume key (can't recall which, Google it if you don't know)
Lastly, how long have you held the power key down for? A 30-second hold should launch it.
Other than any of these options, best bet is to make a separate thread asking for help or to follow a hard brick guide for the OP3.

Shayded said:
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Edit: Nevermind? After playing around with button combinations it booted back into recovery somehow. Guess it's salvageable
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Just seen the edit. Okay, makes sense. Good luck :good:

ememeh said:
Sorry to hear that. It's unlikely, but could be a battery issue if there was a major drain. So keep it on charge. (It may well be charging without the LED anyway.)
If not tried already, try launching fastboot mode manually with the power/volume key (can't recall which, Google it if you don't know)
Lastly, how long have you held the power key down for? A 30-second hold should launch it.
Other than any of these options, best bet is to make a separate thread asking for help or to follow a hard brick guide for the OP3.
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I tried holding power for 40+ seconds and nothing, everything was totally dead. Then I clicked the power button about a minute later and it popped into recovery, gave me the option to derypt and wipe everything so I did and now I'm into a fresh 4.0.1 install.
Seriously, no damn clue how it happened or what could have caused any part of it but it works now. So for anyone with a bricked OP3: Just mash buttons

Shayded said:
I tried holding power for 40+ seconds and nothing, everything was totally dead. Then I clicked the power button about a minute later and it popped into recovery, gave me the option to derypt and wipe everything so I did and now I'm into a fresh 4.0.1 install.
Seriously, no damn clue how it happened or what could have caused any part of it but it works now. So for anyone with a bricked OP3: Just mash buttons
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Luckily for you, it doesn't sound like a true hard brick. Sometimes power buttons are just funny like this. In my experience at least (I've come back from near death experiences in a similar way to you before).
In any event, well done! Always such a relief to get things working again.

Upgrading LOS from 18.1 to 19

Step 5 of the upgrade instuctions say that if you want install add-ons, you need to click Advanced then Reboot to Recovery. However, my phone, as mentioned in the instructions can happen, goes to a black screen. So how can I install Gapps after side-loading LOS?
Has anyone successfully carried out the upgrade?

Try this:
Connect your phone to a charger or pc....(make sure its charging)....then press and hold (vol up + power button)...until android one logo shows up, as soon as the logo shows up just leave the power button but still holding the volume up button until it enters lineage os recovery menu. Then flash your gapps...and then factory reset,....then reboot system. It works.....good luck

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Try this:
Connect your phone to a charger or pc....(make sure its charging)....then press and hold (vol up + power button)...until android one logo shows up, as soon as the logo shows up just leave the power button but still holding the volume up button until it enters lineage os recovery menu. Then flash your gapps...and then factory reset,....then reboot system. It works.....good luck
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My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.

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My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.
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oldfone said:
My problem was not that I didn't know what to do. The problem is that on my phone, I just get a blank screen when I boot to recovery. The recovery still works, but it is hard to use if you can't see what you are doing. However, as I have another phone where I can see the recovery, I was able to use that as a guide.
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Hello! I have the exact same issue! Is there any known fix yet and can I contribute somehow?

I haven't found a solution, but some workarounds are given here: https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/4170

oldfone said:
I haven't found a solution, but some workarounds are given here: https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/4170
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The TWRP workaround did not work for me, but I awas able to install it blindly.
Is there any way to run the LOS Recovery on a windows PC in VirtualBox or something? Then I could make some screenshots of the Recovery Menu so everyone with the same issue can at least do it blindly in theory...