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[Q] Pattern Locked out (SOLVED)

Hey all, I am new to the forum and the android OS, but have some knowledge of unlocking etc (I unlocked my iPhone)... I don't want to unlock my phone but all I want to do it wipe it and start fresh with a stock OS etc. I want to be able to send it in for warranty if needed, so my question is, can I somehow get past this pattern lockout myself? Or do I need to send the phone in and get a new one. As it stands, my replacement phone won't be here till NEXT weds (9.8.10) and that is just toooo long. Any noob help is appreciated!
FYI: I did some research already and d/l'd the Android SDK and JavaSE etc. But dont know where to go from there.
Thanks again!

with the phone off try press and hold volume up and down together then press power button and hold till you get Vibrant screen then use up and down arrows to highlight and power to select factory data reset.

schnem said:
with the phone off try press and hold volume up and down together then press power button and hold till you get Vibrant screen then use up and down arrows to highlight and power to select factory data reset.
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Yessir did all that with the TMO techs and it seemed to make the problem worse as now my gmail info is all gone. Ty for the quick reply though!!!!

Everything u need is right here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
It will return your phone to stock and keep it unrooted.

Aspeds2989 said:
Everything u need is right here:
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It will return your phone to stock and keep it unrooted.
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Roger that and thank you! My only question, does it matter that my phone is brand spankin new? I mean that post was months ago, is the ROM and all that the same? I litterally got mine yesterday lol... Thanks again!

Apexsilverevo said:
Roger that and thank you! My only question, does it matter that my phone is brand spankin new? I mean that post was months ago, is the ROM and all that the same? I litterally got mine yesterday lol... Thanks again!
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Yeah its the same, there hasn't been a update for it yet. Definitely a update this month.

zephiK said:
Yeah its the same, there hasn't been a update for it yet. Definitely a update this month.
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Freakin Awesome man... thanks a ton everyone for the help... I'll let ya know how the reflash turns out!
Update: Odin doesn't seem to want to see the phone... pretty sure I dont have the USB drivers... Where can I find that?
DBL Edit: Found it and its doing its business as we speak! Thanks again!

YES! IT IS FIXED!!!!!!! TY for all the help!

worse then soft brick, HELP!

ok so basically i installed a custom rom, great.. not really.
it wouldn't connect to a network, my usb failed and countless other things were missing.
fine and dandy, rom manager asked me to do a backup of my original rom so i'll just load that... file unloadable.
great.
Miraculously i managed to get a new rom on my sd card and installed it.
got stuck at bootscreen then loaded in to a black screen that only showed the notification bar.
by now i've gotten pretty flustered and figure a battery pull should re set everything and let it load up fine (after all i'm a previous bb user lol)
but no
no, now my phone won't even power on.. even when i plug it into the wall to charge the screen stays black.
holding any button combination doesn't work..
its literally a brick.
is there any way to fix this?
so far all i've found are fixes for "soft bricks"
sounds like i'm a little past that stage...

Ok, take out the battery, sim, and sd card from your phone. Now with the battery out, plug the phone into the usb and connect to pc. Now, while holding down the volume up/down at the same time, but NOT the power button, put in the battery. And there you should have download mode, odin away.
Good luck.

kylecore said:
so far all i've found are fixes for "soft bricks"
sounds like i'm a little past that stage...
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I'll give you $100 for it, PM me

Telanis said:
I'll give you $100 for it, PM me
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well i had just bought it that day so it was covered under warranty.
i took it back and told them the upgrade to 2.2 did it.
they gave me a new one no questions,
it also helps that i work for them and am their tech guy so they would have given me the phone to try to fix had it been a customer lol.

kylecore said:
well i had just bought it that day so it was covered under warranty.
i took it back and told them the upgrade to 2.2 did it.
they gave me a new one no questions,
it also helps that i work for them and am their tech guy so they would have given me the phone to try to fix had it been a customer lol.
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Please stop scamming...

Its "worse than", not "worse then"

grennis said:
Its "worse than", not "worse then"
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This too...

how not to update a rom

i was updating my vibrant phone in kies and i thought the file was still being downloaded when i received a call.
i took the call and got off as soon as possible.
when the installation finished it started to reboot but never made it and i have not been able to get any kind of start-up screen at all.
i am totally bricked.
before the update i was able to get into download mode but no more.
no two button or three button combos work.
i am leaving the battery out all night and will try again tomorrow but i am not hopeful.
moral of the story is take out the damn sim card when updating so as not to screw up the download.
sigh.
anyone have any ideas what to do with the boat anchor besides trying to talk t-mobile into taking it back.

Same thing happened to me a while back.
the only way of resurrecting your phone if its COMPLETELY bricked is to use a JIG box... Google it... Otherwise its basically paperweight and if you have insurance call it in lost or stolen.

You corrupted the bootloader.

all the jig boxes say they get the phone into download mode.
however one of the ebay vendors says:
If your phone screen is always black, turn it on and if it stays completely black, then sorry, but NO USB jig will help you.
so i don't understand how the jig will help me since i cannot get any response from the phone at all.
how is the jig wired.
do you know.
thanks.
irv

You should have put it into airplane mode :/.

buru898 said:
You should have put it into airplane mode :/.
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should have not used that POS called Kies

He shouldn't have answered the phone.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

You can try the jig it may work for you connextion2005 sells for 8 bucks. You can try to push the bootloader through adb, don;t know you exact situation. If those don't work then you could return it and clam under warranty that the it got jacked up when updating on Kies, and get a new phone. (refurbished one probably)
Good luck

This happened to me a while ago and i could not get into recovery or download mode at all. I did the search on the forums, and there was a way to get it back into download mode. Just search it and it might work for you. i'm sorry i don't remember the method itself but good luck.
EDIT: this is not it, but try the "no-boot method"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737&highlight=download+mode
irv6744 said:
i was updating my vibrant phone in kies and i thought the file was still being downloaded when i received a call.
i took the call and got off as soon as possible.
when the installation finished it started to reboot but never made it and i have not been able to get any kind of start-up screen at all.
i am totally bricked.
before the update i was able to get into download mode but no more.
no two button or three button combos work.
i am leaving the battery out all night and will try again tomorrow but i am not hopeful.
moral of the story is take out the damn sim card when updating so as not to screw up the download.
sigh.
anyone have any ideas what to do with the boat anchor besides trying to talk t-mobile into taking it back.
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jamesd86 said:
should have not used that POS called Kies
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I've never used kies just like I never used activesync .

the no boot method didn't work for me.
i will probably try the jig method one of these days but i don't have much hope for that either.
airplane mode is a good idea when updating..
should be mentioned more often.
what do people use instead of kies for updating and backups.
thanks

i made my own jig with a 301k resistor and a usb connector and there was no joy.
i think i am dead in the water.
i am thinking of getting a phone with a broken screen and swapping out the screens.
is that a tough job?

Hard bricked and possible hardware issue. I need advice please.

I recently received a used epic 4g when a friend replaced his phone, all was good but then yesterday the phone froze. I took the battery out and powered it back on it then took a long time to boot (2 minutes+) and once it finally did boot it was unusable and very unresponsive. I looked online and got into restore mode and then encountered a problem, my buttons at the bottom don't work therefore I could not hit the home button to select an option.
So I then used Odin to restore it (Used stock stuff). After I restored it it was working fine again. Then today i dropped it 2 feet off my bed and it went back to booting slow and then being unresponsive once booted. I then tried to restore it with Odin again but I made a mistake and didn't put the PDA file in and now my phone seems to be hard bricked (noob move I know).
I am considering sending it in for JTAG but I have some questions. Do you guys think the SLOW booting and unresponsive once booted issues were hardware issues? Will it just do that again eventually after I pay for it to be JTAG fixed? Also do you think they would be able to fix the buttons at the bottom? I would appreciate any advice.
Also please don't kick me when I am down, I know not double checking my Odin stuff was a dumb move, that's not what this thread is about.

So to just be sure, you can't power it on at all? The slow booting seems like a ROM problem. If you can get into Download mode you can fix it. If not, then you are definitely bricked and need to take it in.
If you could though, just reodin the proper files WITHOUT rushing.
I've dropped my phone everyday (I've even found out gorilla glass is ass since it cracked) but its always booted unless I did some dumb **** to it.
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A_Flying_Fox said:
So to just be sure, you can't power it on at all? The slow booting seems like a ROM problem. If you can get into Download mode you can fix it. If not, then you are definitely bricked and need to take it in.
If you could though, just reodin the proper files WITHOUT rushing.
I've dropped my phone everyday (I've even found out gorilla glass is ass since it cracked) but its always booted unless I did some dumb **** to it.
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Thanks for the reply
Correct I can't get it to power on at all. A second opinion on whether or not there was a hardware issue would nice, it just seems odd to me that the exact same thing would happen again a day later. When I bricked it I accidentally only used a pit file. When I did it right the first time I followed a guide and had a pit file and a PDA file, I assume one of those is(or includes) the ROM but I don't really know a lot about this stuff. I am considering just selling this one on ebay as-is if you guys think its a hardware issue and getting a new phone but if not I'll send it to be fixed.

JoeCow said:
Thanks for the reply
Correct I can't get it to power on at all. A second opinion on whether or not there was a hardware issue would nice, it just seems odd to me that the exact same thing would happen again a day later. When I bricked it I only had a pit file. When I did it right the first time I followed a guide and had a pit file and a PDA file, I assume one of those is(or includes) the ROM but I don't really know a lot about this stuff. I am considering just selling this one on ebay as-is if you guys think its a hardware issue and getting a new phone but if not I'll send it to be fixed.
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try removing the battery. then try to get into download mode with it plugged into the computer only no battery also remove sd card.

tazfanatic said:
try removing the battery. then try to get into download mode with it plugged into the computer only no battery also remove sd card.
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Thanks!! that did it. I had actually already tried that but tried it again when you suggested it I couldn't get it initially but kept trying and eventually tried unplugging it and plugging it back in while holding one and power the whole time and that got it. So was the slow boot thing happening twice just unlucky or is there something else I need to root or whatever?

JoeCow said:
Thanks!! that did it. I had actually already tried that but tried it again when you suggested it I couldn't get it initially but kept trying and eventually tried unplugging it and plugging it back in while holding one and power the whole time and that got it. So was the slow boot thing happening twice just unlucky or is there something else I need to root or whatever?
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My guess is the slow booting was data corruption. A clean install should fix that. After Odining in the stock EL30 run it like that for a few days to see how it is working before looking into rooting it and a custom ROM.
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kennyglass123 said:
My guess is the slow booting was data corruption. A clean install should fix that. After Odining in the stock EL30 run it like that for a few days to see how it is working before looking into rooting it and a custom ROM.
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what kenny said

Thanks guys, saved me $50s should i have sent it in. I appreciate it. I watched a few of the videos on rooting it and I saw the recovery program used to root things lets you use the camera button as apposed to the home button for selecting things. Think I should switch to that since my bottom buttons are broken? It looked like I probably wouldn't be able to navigate back in menus after selecting something but that would be better then not being able to select anything.

JoeCow said:
Thanks guys, saved me $50s should i have sent it in. I appreciate it. I watched a few of the videos on rooting it and I saw the recovery program used to root things lets you use the camera button as apposed to the home button for selecting things. Think I should switch to that since my bottom buttons are broken? It looked like I probably wouldn't be able to navigate back in menus after selecting something but that would be better then not being able to select anything.
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If they are still broken after a fresh Odin then yes the newer CWM will work fine for you. There are widgets somewhere (don't remember) to add those buttions to your screen once you get it working right.

If the buttons really are toasted there are two fairly good onscreen button apps available. One is called Zmooth and the other is called Button Savior.

LG G2-D800 turning on and off by itself.

Hello All,
I have an LG G2-D800 (ATT model). It is just turning off and on by itself. I have been using the phone from almost 1year and it worked very well.
This issue has started happening couple of days back, and switches off all of a sudden when in middle of something.
I have tried factory reset and also encrpted the phone for BYOD purposes at work.
I havent installed anything new recently and was working well all long except this problem. it has become almost unusable now.
ANy suggestions on how to fix it? I am on lollipop

akusbharat said:
Hello All,
I have an LG G2-D800 (ATT model). It is just turning off and on by itself. I have been using the phone from almost 1year and it worked very well.
This issue has started happening couple of days back, and switches off all of a sudden when in middle of something.
I have tried factory reset and also encrpted the phone for BYOD purposes at work.
I havent installed anything new recently and was working well all long except this problem. it has become almost unusable now.
ANy suggestions on how to fix it? I am on lollipop
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Without a logcat or crash message there is not way to find the cause.

I am not sure how to get it, can you let me know how to do get it

There are plenty of tut around the site. Follow the rules and you will find it.

zelendel said:
There are plenty of tut around the site. Follow the rules and you will find it.
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I tried crash log app from google store, and it never sent me an email which I opted for with the crash log file

akusbharat said:
I tried crash log app from google store, and it never sent me an email which I opted for with the crash log file
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Update to this now. My phone is not responding at all when I press power, volume up and down buttons.
Also when I connect to windows PC, it says USB device not recognised. I have all the drivers installed. Cant get into recovery or download mode at all.
When I check for devices using fastboot or adb, it doesnt show the device connected. my phone might have been bricked, but do not know how that happened.
Searched so many forums and threads here, but nothing helped in my case.
Can someone please let me know what to do now.

Uhm dead motherboard? You didn't flash anything recently so it's not a brick probably. Take that thing to the service if it's not reacting on pressing physical buttons. I wouldn't have high hopes for it tho.
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Your phone doesn't turn on at all, right?

MilanStojkovic said:
Uhm dead motherboard? You didn't flash anything recently so it's not a brick probably. Take that thing to the service if it's not reacting on pressing physical buttons. I wouldn't have high hopes for it tho.
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Your phone doesn't turn on at all, right?
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Yes, doesnt turn on at all now..... it turned on when I tried over the weekend, battery was almost zero , so it came on ( I think so)
When connected to a PC, it is showing up as "QHSUSB_BULK"
From my reading online, it means hard brick..... I cant get into recovery,download modes or anything at all now..... definitely not motherboard
Can someone tell me how to fix this phone.
"fastboot devices" doesnt return any device
ADB or fastboot doesnt detect the phone at all.... just "waiting for device....." message

Any help here please?

Can you get on team viewer?
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After going through your post, i'm 70% sure it's a hardware problem. Take your device to nearest service center and them know your issue.