I recently purchased a lg g2, the korean variant f320s, it was running kitkat with a lot of bloatware on top. I successfully rooted the phone and after that i found a cwm recovery installer for this version of the phone and i hooked up the phone and ran the installer on my pc, it finished installing and the phone rebooted into the custom recovery which was in chinese i went into a menu option and then pressed the back button on the screen and the phone instantly rebooted and got stuck at lg boot logo. Is there anyway to fix this? i have tried wiping cache, dalvik and factory reset from the recovery that i can access(chinese or something) but to no avail. I can access the download mode but my pc does'nt recognize the phone and this step is crucial for i guess installing the stock rom through lg flash tools. The phone however is recognized when im in recovery and i plug it in but it only shows as a drive that is faded out and entering it shows nothing. please help me i just got it two days ago
Have you tried to use adb to sideload a rom?
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Have you tried to use adb to sideload a rom?
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i'm sorry im a complete noob in this regard could you explain a bit on how to go about doing that? i am downloading the stock kitkat rom for the model its in kdz format
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I flashed cloudy flex rom on it through external sd in recovery and now when i boot it up it stays on lg logo for a while then screen goes black and botts up again directly into CWM recovery, please help someone...
Same problem
sheroy1995 said:
I recently purchased a lg g2, the korean variant f320s, it was running kitkat with a lot of bloatware on top. I successfully rooted the phone and after that i found a cwm recovery installer for this version of the phone and i hooked up the phone and ran the installer on my pc, it finished installing and the phone rebooted into the custom recovery which was in chinese i went into a menu option and then pressed the back button on the screen and the phone instantly rebooted and got stuck at lg boot logo. Is there anyway to fix this? i have tried wiping cache, dalvik and factory reset from the recovery that i can access(chinese or something) but to no avail. I can access the download mode but my pc does'nt recognize the phone and this step is crucial for i guess installing the stock rom through lg flash tools. The phone however is recognized when im in recovery and i plug it in but it only shows as a drive that is faded out and entering it shows nothing. please help me i just got it two days ago
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EXACT same problem as you... Every detail is exactly the same.
I am trying to find a solution. Any luck?
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naleyb01 said:
EXACT same problem as you... Every detail is exactly the same.
I am trying to find a solution. Any luck?
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Yeah you just need to flash a different rom through the sd card i tried cloudy rom but it didnt work then a i tried Lamhoang rom and it did the trick im on jellybean now though and i'll try flashing something else in a month or so
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You are a legend!! Device back up and running.
Okay so I installed that same rom you did but the home/back/menu buttons weren't working so not wanting to muck around, I did some quick searching (which I should have done before >.<) and worked out how to get the Cloudy roms working on a korean device.
You need "Philz cloudy f320 recovery", the kitkat baseband and the rom. LINK
1 - Install the new recovery from zip and then boot back into recovery after this. You will now be greeted with philz recovery which is awesome.
2 - From here, proceed to install the rom as noted on the rom page.
This process worked for me for the Cloudy G3 V1.3 rom.
Thanks a lot for your help!! happy to return the favour! But i am hoping the above info already does that. :victory:
naleyb01 said:
You are a legend!! Device back up and running.
Okay so I installed that same rom you did but the home/back/menu buttons weren't working so not wanting to muck around, I did some quick searching (which I should have done before >.<) and worked out how to get the Cloudy roms working on a korean device.
You need "Philz cloudy f320 recovery",
1 - Install the new recovery from zip and then boot back into recovery after this. You will now be greeted with philz recovery which is awesome.
2 - From here, proceed to install the rom as noted on the rom page.
This process worked for me for the Cloudy G3 V1.3 rom.
Thanks a lot for your help!! happy to return the favour! But i am hoping the above info already does that. :victory:
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Good to know you got it working again i still cant figure out why this problem occurred in the first place why did the phone brick from the recovery when the recovery was working fiblne after? Also i can just get the new recovery over the one already on the phone without removing the previous one right? Thanks for the info im gonna try out the cloudy roms soon
I have no idea.. something to do with that chinese recovery I am guessing.. There are still a few issues I am going to address but for now my phone is 95% working.
The only issue is that if I try go into download mode, it still doesn't go to the second screen (All i get is the small blue dots). Bit of a pain because that's something nice to fall back on if you ever need to.
I'll search around and try and figure these out in the next week or two, but I am happy with what I have for the moment.
Yep, you literally install the new recovery over your current one and then you can restart phone back into your rom and then reboot back into recovery using an app or the button method.
naleyb01 said:
I have no idea.. something to do with that chinese recovery I am guessing.. There are still a few issues I am going to address but for now my phone is 95% working.
The only issue is that if I try go into download mode, it still doesn't go to the second screen (All i get is the small blue dots). Bit of a pain because that's something nice to fall back on if you ever need to.
I'll search around and try and figure these out in the next week or two, but I am happy with what I have for the moment.
Yep, you literally install the new recovery over your current one and then you can restart phone back into your rom and then reboot back into recovery using an app or the button method.
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Yeah i have the same issue with the download mode as well and the phone cant seem to sync properly with the lg mobile support tool either.Do let me know if you figure something out
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Hi all,
As the title suggests, I have a bricked phone.
A little background, I rooted the phone then installed CWM. After that I installed CM10.2 but didn't care for it so decided to use Scotts stock rooted rom. To install that you have to have TWRP so installed that using Loki/adb. TWRP booted fine but when I went to do a wipe it hung at formatting cache. I rebooted and tried it again with the same results. I decided to try to install the rom anyway (dumb I know) and now all I have is a blank screen. No LG logo or anything. When I connect it to my pc windows recognizes like 10 different drives. I can't get it into download mode or recovery.
Am I screwed and need to see if ATT will replace it or is there a work around for this?
Thanks!
Wiping takes a long time. let it run and finish... could take 10 minutes or more.
how are you trying to get into recovery?
tdevaughn said:
Wiping takes a long time. let it run and finish... could take 10 minutes or more.
how are you trying to get into recovery?
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Yeah I let it run for about 15 minutes which is considerably longer than it usually takes on any other phone I've done (many).
Tring to get to recovery using the power key method.
The thing is that it never gets to the LG logo. Nothing shows up on sceen at all but it is on.
fegar said:
Hi all,
As the title suggests, I have a bricked phone.
A little background, I rooted the phone then installed CWM. After that I installed CM10.2 but didn't care for it so decided to use Scotts stock rooted rom. To install that you have to have TWRP so installed that using Loki/adb. TWRP booted fine but when I went to do a wipe it hung at formatting cache. I rebooted and tried it again with the same results. I decided to try to install the rom anyway (dumb I know) and now all I have is a blank screen. No LG logo or anything. When I connect it to my pc windows recognizes like 10 different drives. I can't get it into download mode or recovery.
Am I screwed and need to see if ATT will replace it or is there a work around for this?
Thanks!
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I'm in the same boat except I never installed a custom recovery or rom. Have you tried fastboot?
If it boots directly to a black screen (no lg splash), i'm sure ATT won't have any issues taking it back as they won't be able to see that it's rooted.
http://www.lg-phones.org/how-to-flash-unbrick-lg-g2-back-to-stock.html Here's a way to unbrick g2
Yeah I tried the flash tool too. No luck as I couldn't get into download or recovery.
I wound up taking it back to ATT and they gave me a new one no questions asked.
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I've heard ranting and raving about Malladus and I decided to flash it yesterday. It won't take the flash no matter what I do.
I've tried: Flashing 1.2.4, downloading both again to make sure it wasn't a download issue, using different gapps package, using a different lg apps package, using CWM, using TWRP, side-loading... ETC
Bottom line: My phone will not take the ROM. It flashes the LG logo and gets stuck at a black screen where the back-light is on but nothing is displayed on the screen.
I am an experienced flasher and I have no idea what is going on. I am backed up and can get into TWRP to restore so I am all good as far as not being bricked goes but I really want to try out this damn rom.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Bump I'm having the same problem, I'm on Verizon.
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Bump I'm having the same problem, I'm on Verizon.
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Yeah same here. Verizon. Forgot to mention it.
Still a problem. Bumping.
I am in the boat with you. I thought it was just me.
Same Black Screen issue
Did anyone have any luck resolving this? Ive tried with both twrp and cwm and same issue...?
Same problem on my Verizon model. Using twrp 2.6.3.3. Other roms work fine.
How long have you left it at the black screen? Sometimes a fresh load can take up to 10 minutes.
Also, the rom will work without gapps and lgapps, so try just loading the rom. I know you downloaded twice, but did you check the md5 sum either time?
heleos said:
How long have you left it at the black screen? Sometimes a fresh load can take up to 10 minutes.
Also, the rom will work without gapps and lgapps, so try just loading the rom. I know you downloaded twice, but did you check the md5 sum either time?
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I left it there for a good 15 minutes. I also had it plugged into my laptop. It kept detecting the phone as plugged in. Seems like it is stuck in a bootloop or something. I also tried installing only the ROM without the gapps and lgapps and had the same result. I also checked the MD5 sum and it matched. (I know I'm kinda hijacking this original post, but I think we are all having the exact same issue)
try this
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I left it there for a good 15 minutes. I also had it plugged into my laptop. It kept detecting the phone as plugged in. Seems like it is stuck in a bootloop or something. I also tried installing only the ROM without the gapps and lgapps and had the same result. I also checked the MD5 sum and it matched. (I know I'm kinda hijacking this original post, but I think we are all having the exact same issue)
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Can you restore your nandroid and flash say, CleanROM 1.0 or DigitalDream 2.1? OR try this:
1. Hold the power button until the device is OFF.
2. Download LG drivers to the PC (LG VZW_United_WHQL_v2.11.1) and LG mobile support tool (B2CAppSetup).
3. Install these packages.
4. Plug in you USB cable into the phone but not the computer.
5. Hold volume up and insert the USB cable to the PC- the phone should boot to 'download mode'.
6. Open the support tool and click Options>Upgrade Recovery, follow the prompts.
7. At the first prompt indentify your phone using IMEI/ESN, then click OK
8. Let it do its thing, the phone will reboot and most likely have a bunch of error messages and some FC's. Just hit okay to all messages, the phone will settle after 2 minutes or so.
9. Download freegee from market and reflash recovery of your choice.
10. Make sure you have a ROM saved to the SD to flash
11. Use freegee to reboot to recovery
12. Once in recovery you can reflash the ROM as normal.
13. Reboot and Profit!
*$* Or you could go back to Stock and start fresh!
*$* BEFORE ANY FLASH ALWAYS STOP and MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP!
Good Luck and if you get stuck let me know
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Can you restore your nandroid and flash say, CleanROM 1.0 or DigitalDream 2.1? OR try this:
1. Hold the power button until the device is OFF.
2. Download LG drivers to the PC (LG VZW_United_WHQL_v2.11.1) and LG mobile support tool (B2CAppSetup).
3. Install these packages.
4. Plug in you USB cable into the phone but not the computer.
5. Hold volume up and insert the USB cable to the PC- the phone should boot to 'download mode'.
6. Open the support tool and click Options>Upgrade Recovery, follow the prompts.
7. At the first prompt indentify your phone using IMEI/ESN, then click OK
8. Let it do its thing, the phone will reboot and most likely have a bunch of error messages and some FC's. Just hit okay to all messages, the phone will settle after 2 minutes or so.
9. Download freegee from market and reflash recovery of your choice.
10. Make sure you have a ROM saved to the SD to flash
11. Use freegee to reboot to recovery
12. Once in recovery you can reflash the ROM as normal.
13. Reboot and Profit!
*$* Or you could go back to Stock and start fresh!
*$* BEFORE ANY FLASH ALWAYS STOP and MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP!
Good Luck and if you get stuck let me know
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I am able to restore my nandroid backup so I'm not completely stuck without a phone. I will try flashing one of the other ROMs and see how it goes now. Thanks for the help so far.
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I am able to restore my nandroid backup so I'm not completely stuck without a phone. I will try flashing one of the other ROMs and see how it goes now. Thanks for the help so far.
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I was able to install the digital dream rom without any issue. At this point I think its the sequence I did everything. I did the latest ota before installing any Recovery. I used the loki method to install the recovery. In looking at all the roms, it appears that malladus may not be "loki patched" for people already on 12b? Other roms I have tried mention that so thats why I'm speculating this. I am by no means a developer so I might be out in left field on this one. I guess I'll stick with stock or another ROM for now until his next update.
It also looks like people are discussing this on the main ROM forum as well so hopefully it will work in the future.
Thanks again for the help and suggestions.
trackstar1414, say thanks by using the "Thanks' button like this.. keep me informed, CHEERS!
trackstar1414 said:
I was able to install the digital dream rom without any issue. At this point I think its the sequence I did everything. I did the latest ota before installing any Recovery. I used the loki method to install the recovery. In looking at all the roms, it appears that malladus may not be "loki patched" for people already on 12b? Other roms I have tried mention that so thats why I'm speculating this. I am by no means a developer so I might be out in left field on this one. I guess I'll stick with stock or another ROM for now until his next update.
It also looks like people are discussing this on the main ROM forum as well so hopefully it will work in the future.
Thanks again for the help and suggestions.
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Wanted to share this if you haven't read it..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
I had issues originally and had to flash back to 1.2.3.
What I ended up doing was switching to CWM 6.0.4.4 ( I was using TWRP 2.6.3.3).
His boot skipped the set up wizard as well, which was odd.
His was also the only ROM I ever got stuck on the fastboot screen while using twrp.
Try ( at your own risk obviously) flashing back to an older malladus (wipe all and boot till you get through the set up wizard),
Then back to recovery, do a wipe, without wiping the system partition, Data Cache and Davlik, and flash back to 1.2.5.
I didn't try it on 1.2.5. But that's how I got into 1.2.4.
Srvisg0d said:
I've heard ranting and raving about Malladus and I decided to flash it yesterday. It won't take the flash no matter what I do.
I've tried: Flashing 1.2.4, downloading both again to make sure it wasn't a download issue, using different gapps package, using a different lg apps package, using CWM, using TWRP, side-loading... ETC
Bottom line: My phone will not take the ROM. It flashes the LG logo and gets stuck at a black screen where the back-light is on but nothing is displayed on the screen.
I am an experienced flasher and I have no idea what is going on. I am backed up and can get into TWRP to restore so I am all good as far as not being bricked goes but I really want to try out this damn rom.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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Are you on 12B OTA? If so, that would be your issue. I took the 12B OTA and tried flashing Malladus and got the same issue you have. You can revert your phone to 11A and that should resolve your issue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960 it will erase everything on your phone and go back to unroot.
Hi . I purchased a used LG G2 and didnt know that teamwin was installed or if it was stock or rooted.
I noticed an update available and downloaded the same, post which my phone restarted and is now in a bootloop of Team Win recovery Projects menu.
I am not able to get the phone to boot Android anymore
Request all of my senior colleagues to help me as I am a total Newbie and tried to get it fixed from the LG service center but even they couldnt do it as the process is getting stuck at the same place each time.
Recovery-Mode
Can u acsses recovery menu?
Turn phone completly off then hold volume down and home button when screen shows LG then again volume down and homebutton.
Then it should popup a white screen that says Hard Reset.
Now press Home button twice.
Now recovery should load.
Now u select wipe data factroy reset and swipe to right.
Now select reboot device.
What carrier? AT&T, VZW, TMOB.....
Sent from my LG-D800
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Hi . I purchased a used LG G2 and didnt know that teamwin was installed or if it was stock or rooted.
I noticed an update available and downloaded the same, post which my phone restarted and is now in a bootloop of Team Win recovery Projects menu.
I am not able to get the phone to boot Android anymore
Request all of my senior colleagues to help me as I am a total Newbie and tried to get it fixed from the LG service center but even they couldnt do it as the process is getting stuck at the same place each time.
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have you tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
theefim said:
Can u acsses recovery menu?
Turn phone completly off then hold volume down and home button when screen shows LG then again volume down and homebutton.
Then it should popup a white screen that says Hard Reset.
Now press Home button twice.
Now recovery should load.
Now u select wipe data factroy reset and swipe to right.
Now select reboot device.
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Hello.. I am afraid that in panic i might have formatted everything with TWRP. That might include a rom file.
I tried the power volum buttom---- Got to the white screen----pressed power button to confirm format----It rebooted and got me to the same Team win screen
I also tried putting the following in the terminal command but ended up stuck at the LG boot screen Logo
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota
Yes I did. It asked me to reboot, so I did. and after reboot it gets stuck at the LG boot Screen logo.
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What carrier? AT&T, VZW, TMOB.....
Sent from my LG-D800
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Its an unlocked International version purchased in India.
Then reset via lg recovery Tools
Sent from my LG-D802 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
lg g2 sprint phone unlock
Can anyone help guide me through unlocking my lg g2 sprint phone. I have tried all I could but still couldn't call out. I received call on it and sent messages but each time I tried calling out, it returns an error message
XxZombiePikachu said:
have you tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
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theefim said:
Then reset via lg recovery Tools
Sent from my LG-D802 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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OK..Do i also need to download some rom along with that? And will it also remove the Team WIN RP?
I want a clean back not normal recovery with nothing extra installed.
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OK..Do i also need to download some rom along with that? And will it also remove the Team WIN RP?
I want a clean back not normal recovery with nothing extra installed.
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that should put you to the moment before you took ota if you want stock you have to use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476 after you get out of bootloop
If teamwin is actually loading you could just flash a rom through there?
XxZombiePikachu said:
that should put you to the moment before you took ota if you want stock you have to use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476 after you get out of bootloop
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is there any way we can live chat on whatsapp while im doing it so that you are aware of every step?
I know im asking too much but im worried coz someone told me nothing can fix it and the board has to be replaced and that will cost hell.lot of money
please help. I will be most grateful to u
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If teamwin is actually loading you could just flash a rom through there?
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yes teamwin ia loading. apparently a couple of software guys in the market tried loading it through teamwin but failed as it gets stuck at a certain point.
can u please provide me with a link of the lg rom so that I can try myself today
rahul_puri said:
yes teamwin ia loading. apparently a couple of software guys in the market tried loading it through teamwin but failed as it gets stuck at a certain point.
can u please provide me with a link of the lg rom so that I can try myself today
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To go back to completely stock you will have to do it with a kdz, there is a guide here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625044
Otherwise the easiest solution would to be to flash a flashable rom either stock or aosp, there are now stock kitkat versions flashable but for me to help you with this i need to know what recovery version you are on and your phone variant.
I am having a similar issue, I've wiped my stock rom using TWRP, unfortunately the Rom I was trying to install is corrupted and now I am stuck. For some reason Mount and ADB sideload options arent doing anything for me i.e. my phone does not show up on my PC.
Any help would be appreciated.
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tariqsaleem said:
I am having a similar issue, I've wiped my stock rom using TWRP, unfortunately the Rom I was trying to install is corrupted and now I am stuck. For some reason Mount and ADB sideload options arent doing anything for me i.e. my phone does not show up on my PC.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Ok so the phone does show up under device manager but Windows is complaining that the drivers arent installed. I know the drivers are installed because I used the same machine to root the phone not too long ago via ADB and everything worked fine. I've tried downloading drivers from LG site and re-installing them but for some reason the phone still isnt getting recognized under device manager
AzaG2 said:
To go back to completely stock you will have to do it with a kdz, there is a guide here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625044
Otherwise the easiest solution would to be to flash a flashable rom either stock or aosp, there are now stock kitkat versions flashable but for me to help you with this i need to know what recovery version you are on and your phone variant.
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I will get back to you with the same tomorrow as I will get my phone tomorrow. Thanks
AzaG2 said:
To go back to completely stock you will have to do it with a kdz, there is a guide here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625044
Otherwise the easiest solution would to be to flash a flashable rom either stock or aosp, there are now stock kitkat versions flashable but for me to help you with this i need to know what recovery version you are on and your phone variant.
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Did understand some part of . Is this KDZ file a ROM? And how and where should I paste these to Install the ROM?
If TeamWin is failing to install the rom, Is there any other way to flash the rom?
AzaG2 said:
To go back to completely stock you will have to do it with a kdz, there is a guide here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625044
Otherwise the easiest solution would to be to flash a flashable rom either stock or aosp, there are now stock kitkat versions flashable but for me to help you with this i need to know what recovery version you are on and your phone variant.
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I'll tell u the situation now. the twrp version is 2.6.3.2. and the phone version is d802 I guess as its an indian version
rahul_puri said:
I'll tell u the situation now. the twrp version is 2.6.3.2. and the phone version is d802 I guess as its an indian version
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Ok one of your problems will be that that version of TWRP is very outdated now and has a lot of issues,
Start by downloading this version http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449679 and flashing it via twrp that will give you version 2.7.0.0
(You can use adb to push this file to your phone to flash or alternatively, the easiest method is either a usb otg cable or otg flashdrive then you can just put the files you need on flashdrive and plug into your phone).
Then if you want a stock based rom and don't wont to follow the instructions from the link i gave you the other day you can install this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2505682
Just follow the instructions on the page, this ROM is basically completely stock with some added tweaks.
The issues you have been facing with the rom installs failing will most likely just be caused by the outdated version of twrp you are using.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Hi guys! So I was getting me a new ROM yesterday. I saw somewhere that there was a new version of TWRP available, so I decided to update it first. For the first time I thought I'd use the TWRP manager and install the new recovery. It all went well. App downloaded the new rec. Double checked it was the correct one and hit install. Then I got a question and a suggestion of what partition I wanted to install on. I don't know of the partitions so I assumed the app choosed the right one. Installed and when rebooting to rec it stopped on the boot screen. Nothing more happened. After 30 minutes I hit download mode and choosed cancel to get to reboot in to system. Same thing, stuck on the first boot screen. I decided there was nothing else to do but revert back to stock via Odin. The phone sat on the boot screen for about one hour while I downloaded everything needed and set up everything. I then followed the text book and installed latest stock. All went well and phone booted up on stock. I quickly went through the setup wizard and headed straight in to developer mode and ticked OEM and USB debugging. Into Odin again and installed the same TWRP I had before. Did everything I was supposed to, including un tick the reboot box. The rec installed fine. I rebooted into download mode again and selected cancel. Quickly hit the buttons for recovery reboot and saw the welcoming red warning about "recovery is not......". But, to my despair it stuck on the first boot screen again. Have tried the same procedure twice now, but the outcome is the same.Do you think the app ( read: ME ) screwed up the partitions? And if so, should I once again install stock ROM but this time use a PIT file? Been reading about it and it seems like it's very scary to use the PIT. I'm now back on stock with stock recovery and everything works fine. I wanted, so badly, to try out the new CM build from @Rainbow_Dash but...... Any advice guys?
thools60 said:
Hi guys! So I was getting me a new ROM yesterday. I saw somewhere that there was a new version of TWRP available, so I decided to update it first. For the first time I thought I'd use the TWRP manager and install the new recovery. It all went well. App downloaded the new rec. Double checked it was the correct one and hit install. Then I got a question and a suggestion of what partition I wanted to install on. I don't know of the partitions so I assumed the app choosed the right one. Installed and when rebooting to rec it stopped on the boot screen. Nothing more happened. After 30 minutes I hit download mode and choosed cancel to get to reboot in to system. Same thing, stuck on the first boot screen. I decided there was nothing else to do but revert back to stock via Odin. The phone sat on the boot screen for about one hour while I downloaded everything needed and set up everything. I then followed the text book and installed latest stock. All went well and phone booted up on stock. I quickly went through the setup wizard and headed straight in to developer mode and ticked OEM and USB debugging. Into Odin again and installed the same TWRP I had before. Did everything I was supposed to, including un tick the reboot box. The rec installed fine. I rebooted into download mode again and selected cancel. Quickly hit the buttons for recovery reboot and saw the welcoming red warning about "recovery is not......". But, to my despair it stuck on the first boot screen again. Have tried the same procedure twice now, but the outcome is the same.Do you think the app ( read: ME ) screwed up the partitions? And if so, should I once again install stock ROM but this time use a PIT file? Been reading about it and it seems like it's very scary to use the PIT. I'm now back on stock with stock recovery and everything works fine. I wanted, so badly, to try out the new CM build from @Rainbow_Dash but...... Any advice guys?
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From what i understand you seem to be having problems with twrp.That is very common scince you didnt get one compatible win mm bootloader.Use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s6-edge-plus/orig-development/recovery-official-twrp-galaxy
If you really think the pit is the problem i can link you one.But that shouldn be neccesary if you installed what i linked you at.
Btw let me know how my rom goes.
Rainbow_Dash said:
From what i understand you seem to be having problems with twrp.That is very common scince you didnt get one compatible win mm bootloader.Use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s6-edge-plus/orig-development/recovery-official-twrp-galaxy
If you really think the pit is the problem i can link you one.But that shouldn be neccesary if you installed what i linked you at.
Btw let me know how my rom goes.
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Thanks Rainbow! I'll try it as soon I get home from work:good: But shouldn't TWRP 3.0.2 be compatible?
thools60 said:
Thanks Rainbow! I'll try it as soon I get home from work:good: But shouldn't TWRP 3.0.2 be compatible?
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The version number isnt really important.Its comaptibility with the mm bootloader is what makes it unbootable.
The one that i linked you is what I use and i would rate it 100% compatible and functional
Hello,
Like the title says, I have a Samsung J5, I rooted it as soon as I got it maybe a year or so ago.
I never had any issues with it. This morning, however I made a (now in hindsight) bad decision by factory resetting, dont even ask me why I thought I needed to factory reset it, I already did it.
Anyways, I did the factory reset from the phone and it instantly rebooted into TWRP, and here's where I got lost. I don't know what to do from here.
I assumed the phone would just reset itself, but it always reboots in recovery mode.
I thought maybe I had to flash a ROM again (I flashed a custom one and then stock back when I first rooted it, but my memory is terrible and I just have faint memories of it), I looked that up and found I needed Odin, the stock rom I wanted to flash and to reboot into download mode. So I got all I required and I don't think Odin is finding my phone.
My phone just has the blue screen saying downloading... and do not turn off target. Nothing else. and Odin doesn't show anything (I think it's supposed to show the device somewhere? Anyways, I'm super lost and I have no idea what to do.
I mostly just need someone to point me in the right direction, maybe some instructions I can follow or something, I'm not super experienced as you can tell but I can follow basic instructions when I'm not being dumb.
TL;DR: Did factory reset on rooted J5, now it only boots into TWRP, no idea where to go from here, stock rom flash?
4tson said:
Hello,
Like the title says, I have a Samsung J5, I rooted it as soon as I got it maybe a year or so ago.
I never had any issues with it. This morning, however I made a (now in hindsight) bad decision by factory resetting, dont even ask me why I thought I needed to factory reset it, I already did it.
Anyways, I did the factory reset from the phone and it instantly rebooted into TWRP, and here's where I got lost. I don't know what to do from here.
I assumed the phone would just reset itself, but it always reboots in recovery mode.
I thought maybe I had to flash a ROM again (I flashed a custom one and then stock back when I first rooted it, but my memory is terrible and I just have faint memories of it), I looked that up and found I needed Odin, the stock rom I wanted to flash and to reboot into download mode. So I got all I required and I don't think Odin is finding my phone.
My phone just has the blue screen saying downloading... and do not turn off target. Nothing else. and Odin doesn't show anything (I think it's supposed to show the device somewhere? Anyways, I'm super lost and I have no idea what to do.
I mostly just need someone to point me in the right direction, maybe some instructions I can follow or something, I'm not super experienced as you can tell but I can follow basic instructions when I'm not being dumb.
TL;DR: Did factory reset on rooted J5, now it only boots into TWRP, no idea where to go from here, stock rom flash?
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Try factory reset in TWRP under "wipe" and try rebooting then.
If that doesn't work download a rom from xda for your device onto an sd card. Then put the sd card into the phone, Reboot into twrp and flash the ROM.
The reason odin isn't picking up your device is more than likely USB debugging isn't enabled which you can only do from inside the phones settings. Enable it once you flash the new rom and then flash your old firmware using odin afterwards if you wish.
Do you know what model it is?
Or even what year model it is? 2015?/16?/17?
If you can boot into twrp you have nothing to worry about as it can be easily resolved
garylawwd said:
Try factory reset in TWRP under "wipe" and try rebooting then.
If that doesn't work download a rom from xda for your device onto an sd card. Then put the sd card into the phone, Reboot into twrp and flash the ROM.
The reason odin isn't picking up your device is more than likely USB debugging isn't enabled which you can only do from inside the phones settings. Enable it once you flash the new rom and then flash your old firmware using odin afterwards if you wish.
Do you know what model it is?
Or even what year model it is? 2015?/16?/17?
If you can boot into twrp you have nothing to worry about as it can be easily resolved
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Hey
I have already tried doing the factory reset from TWRP, but when I reboot after that it goes back into recovery mode, if I try to reboot from recovery mode into system it just goes back to recovery mode as well.
I'll try downloading another rom, I got the stock one in there but it doesn't flash it from TWRP, which I'm pretty sure is expected behaviour anyways.
The model is SM-J510MN 2016, I'll start looking for a rom.
Thanks
4tson said:
Hey
I have already tried doing the factory reset from TWRP, but when I reboot after that it goes back into recovery mode, if I try to reboot from recovery mode into system it just goes back to recovery mode as well.
I'll try downloading another rom, I got the stock one in there but it doesn't flash it from TWRP, which I'm pretty sure is expected behaviour anyways.
The model is SM-J510MN 2016, I'll start looking for a rom.
Thanks
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You can't flash the stock rom in TWRP because it is a .zip.tar file and twrp can only flash .zip files or .img files
garylawwd said:
You can't flash the stock rom in TWRP because it is a .zip.tar file and twrp can only flash .zip files or .img files
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Yeah, I may or may not have already tried hehe.
You wouldn't happen to have a rom that's not being hosted on Mega would you? I exceeded my limit when I was 95% done downloading one of them.
I think I found one, whoops.
4tson said:
Hello,
Like the title says, I have a Samsung J5, I rooted it as soon as I got it maybe a year or so ago.
I never had any issues with it. This morning, however I made a (now in hindsight) bad decision by factory resetting, dont even ask me why I thought I needed to factory reset it, I already did it.
Anyways, I did the factory reset from the phone and it instantly rebooted into TWRP, and here's where I got lost. I don't know what to do from here.
I assumed the phone would just reset itself, but it always reboots in recovery mode.
I thought maybe I had to flash a ROM again (I flashed a custom one and then stock back when I first rooted it, but my memory is terrible and I just have faint memories of it), I looked that up and found I needed Odin, the stock rom I wanted to flash and to reboot into download mode. So I got all I required and I don't think Odin is finding my phone.
My phone just has the blue screen saying downloading... and do not turn off target. Nothing else. and Odin doesn't show anything (I think it's supposed to show the device somewhere? Anyways, I'm super lost and I have no idea what to do.
I mostly just need someone to point me in the right direction, maybe some instructions I can follow or something, I'm not super experienced as you can tell but I can follow basic instructions when I'm not being dumb.
TL;DR: Did factory reset on rooted J5, now it only boots into TWRP, no idea where to go from here, stock rom flash?
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maybe install usb drivers and try this: disconnect device, hold power, home and vol up key, connect device and then press volume up to enter download mode
Dyeide said:
maybe install usb drivers and try this: disconnect device, hold power, home and vol up key, connect device and then press volume up to enter download mode
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Yep, I tried that, although I'm not sure the USB drivers I downloaded were correct, since the official page isn't working at least for me. So I downloaded what the websites claimed were the correct drivers, I went into download mode that way, which has some debug info on the top left stating it's in Odin mode, but Odin still didn't recognize it.
I'm pretty sure usb debug options were turned on before this, but I'm not sure if the factory reset could've messed with that, thought I'm assuming it could be part of it.
I'm currently trying to download some custom roms to follow garylawwd's advice, I'll reply once I've got results.
garylawwd said:
You can't flash the stock rom in TWRP because it is a .zip.tar file and twrp can only flash .zip files or .img files
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So I downloaded one, wiped everything, installed it via twrp, it apparently installed it correctly, rebooted the system and it went straight into recovery mode again. It's not letting me reboot into anything that isn't download or recovery. Any other ideas? Am I doing something wrong?
4tson said:
So I downloaded one, wiped everything, installed it via twrp, it apparently installed it correctly, rebooted the system and it went straight into recovery mode again. It's not letting me reboot into anything that isn't download or recovery. Any other ideas? Am I doing something wrong?
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Uhm, so after doing that I flashed the latest twrp version (I had 3.0.2 or something), rebooted after flashing the image, did a wipe from there, rebooted and it now didn't boot into recovery mode but instead I'm now on a white screen with the samsung logo in the middle looping from light grey to black. I'll look into that I guess...
4tson said:
Uhm, so after doing that I flashed the latest twrp version (I had 3.0.2 or something), rebooted after flashing the image, did a wipe from there, rebooted and it now didn't boot into recovery mode but instead I'm now on a white screen with the samsung logo in the middle looping from light grey to black. I'll look into that I guess...
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After it got stuck on the samsung logo I rebooted into recovery mode, flashed the custom rom once again, rebooted and it's still stuck on the samsung logo. Lost once more.
4tson said:
After it got stuck on the samsung logo I rebooted into recovery mode, flashed the custom rom once again, rebooted and it's still stuck on the samsung logo. Lost once more.
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Go into twrp and go to wipe. Click advanced wipe and wipe system, internal, data, dalvik cache.
Then flash the ROM again and reboot
garylawwd said:
Go into twrp and go to wipe. Click advanced wipe and wipe system, internal, data, dalvik cache.
Then flash the ROM again and reboot
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Tried this just now, it rebooted twice and on the second reboot it got stuck on the logo once again.
I think I'm done trying to mess around with it, I'll take it to a repair place :/
Thanks for looking out though, definitely appreciate your tips even if they didn't end up working out. :good:
4tson said:
After it got stuck on the samsung logo I rebooted into recovery mode, flashed the custom rom once again, rebooted and it's still stuck on the samsung logo. Lost once more.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...nt/recovery-twrp-3-1-2-blue-dogerino-t3768707 Try flashing this recovery it's a newer version.Just download the .img file and install it through twrp as recovery when prompted.
4tson said:
So I downloaded one, wiped everything, installed it via twrp, it apparently installed it correctly, rebooted the system and it went straight into recovery mode again. It's not letting me reboot into anything that isn't download or recovery. Any other ideas? Am I doing something wrong?
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Why would you try a ROM which has not been updated for months,get a recent one like Lineage OS just to try if it works,its also small in size.
DontTouchMaPhone said:
Why would you try a ROM which has not been updated for months,get a recent one like Lineage OS just to try if it works,its also small in size.
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He wants to just enable USB debugging in devoloper options because he wants the stock firmware and his pc isn't recognising his phone because this option isn't enabled.
He has twrp so flashing any rom will do just to get into the phone and enable USB debugging so he can flash the stock firmware through odin
garylawwd said:
He wants to just enable USB debugging in devoloper options because he wants the stock firmware and his pc isn't recognising his phone because this option isn't enabled.
He has twrp so flashing any rom will do just to get into the phone and enable USB debugging so he can flash the stock firmware through odin
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I understand why he is using a custom rom,I mean why did he try one that has not been updated for ages because maybe its the rom causing bootloop
DontTouchMaPhone said:
I understand why he is using a custom rom,I mean why did he try one that has not been updated for ages because maybe its the rom causing bootloop
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Hey, so yeah, I was just looking for any rom, didn't really look for anything in particular, just got the first one I found in order to just get into the phone.
I ended up just taking it to a repair place after not having much luck myself, I don't know what exactly they did, but I now have that ROM flashed and I have access to the phone, I'm not sure if I want to try flashing either a different custom rom now, stock, or just sticking to this, since I'm sorta scared it will get messed up again and I'll have to go back to that repair place.
4tson said:
Hey, so yeah, I was just looking for any rom, didn't really look for anything in particular, just got the first one I found in order to just get into the phone.
I ended up just taking it to a repair place after not having much luck myself, I don't know what exactly they did, but I now have that ROM flashed and I have access to the phone, I'm not sure if I want to try flashing either a different custom rom now, stock, or just sticking to this, since I'm sorta scared it will get messed up again and I'll have to go back to that repair place.
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Are you on stock now?
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Are you on stock now?
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Nope, I'm on Extreme ux 8.0, which is what I downloaded to try to get into the phone to turn on the usb debugging option, the guy that repaired it must've noticed it was already on my SD card and flashed it without telling me.
Like I said, I kind of want to go back to stock but I'm sort of scared of touching it and having it get stuck again, I've kinda got used to this rom's little issues by now though I suppose.
4tson said:
Nope, I'm on Extreme ux 8.0, which is what I downloaded to try to get into the phone to turn on the usb debugging option, the guy that repaired it must've noticed it was already on my SD card and flashed it without telling me.
Like I said, I kind of want to go back to stock but I'm sort of scared of touching it and having it get stuck again, I've kinda got used to this rom's little issues by now though I suppose.
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Wait,so you paid for the repair right?And he flashed you a custom rom?Looks pretty scammy to me..Anyways do you have twrp or stock recovery?