I had a LG Stylo 3. Recently I tried to start it up and got the Security Signon Screen. I had never locked the phone so I had no idea what it was. The tech at the phone store said the phone was unusable and there was no way to unlock it. I use Cricket.
Any ideas?
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Hello!
I sold an LG G2 32 GB to a person on Tradera (eBay-like site). Before I sent it to the person I made two factory reset, the first time was to check that everything was gone and the second time was for safety's sake.
I had used the phone for about 2 years with no problems, there was not any carrier locks on it. When the buyer received the cell phone, he said that the mobile phone requires a code and he said it was Carrier Code, so I bought a code for him to lock up but he pushed it in and it did not work, according to him. A day after, he sent the picture on the screen how it looked. He then sent it back to me so I could fix it. It required "Backup PIN" Invalid Backup Pin it said. I have also attached picture. Without / with simcard this comes up, it does not indicate a SIM card. I can not get into download mode or recovery mode. Nothing works and cell phone is useless.
What should I do to fix it?
This is a bit crazy. I dropped my LG G2 TMO D801BK and bought a replacement. Now, when I connect to LG Mobile Support tool the old phone shows as an LGD801BK but the newer one shows up as a LGD500BK.
The new phone came stock with 4.2.2 and then a series of upgrades from TMO appeared. It gets as far as D80130a and when D80130b shows up it fails in the update, reboots, and Google Play Services keep halting and almost all the other apps don't work.
My old LG G2 is now sitting at D80130c and works fine except for the cracked screen.
Is there anyway to just copy everything off the old phone onto the new one ROM and all or fix the newer phone to identify properly? I've noticed that the new phone IMEI in the rom is different from the one inside the case... any thoughts?
Really appreciate any assistance.
Update: Strange IMEI info ...
Opened the back of the G2 and the printed IMEI doesn't match what the phone reports. Interestingly enough when I do a check the one inside the back cover comes back as a LG G2 and clean but the one that the phone reports comes back as a "prototype" from LG and not a G2 at all... I'm wondering if someone used a prototype IMEI when "refurbishing" this phone to get around a blacklist.
Thoughts?
Hey there, first time poster , long time user of this site. I started using this site about four years ago when I needed help modifying a HTC one V, and from there on out I haven't been able to stop modding and rooting. This site has been so helpful, you have no idea
To date I haven't had many issues with the unlocking of boot loaders and rooting, installing roms and also network unlocking.....Until today.
I am currently trying to network unlock a Samsung s5 neo. I did indeed buy the unlock code from Koodo (the original service provider). However (heres where its going to get weird), no matter how many times I try putting the darn code in, it plain well just refuses to take it. I can sit here all day and nadda a thing will happen.. IN FACT I thought after 10 times it would hard lock its self, resulting in me having to buy a unfreeze code. But nupe.
I'v used 3 different sim cards to try to get this phone unlocked but nothing, Bell Mobility from my LG G5 phone, A PC mobile sim and a Eastlink sim (By the way I'm from Canada)
I tried flashing (odin) with koodo OEM roms, from the first one which i think was 5.1 up to 6.** not sure where it left off. Even went as far as flashing with Telus rom, as koodo is the sister of Telus, and still it sits there pretty much laughing at me.
Factory reset from both with in the OS and the recovery menu, used every code for the phone dialer and half refuse to work. Installed shortcut master (Yes I'm rooted) and keeps saying locked. Also been trying to sim unlock both unrooted and rooted.
I'm completely mind blowen, i even said what the heck and bought a code off line for kicks and sure enough as soon as it showed up in my inbox, same EXACT code Koodo gave me. So we know the code is right.
Any help would be great as I'm at a complete lost. this is the first phone iv had , i'v ever had this much troubles unlocking. OH and if it helps "KNOX" is disabled
P.S I have no idea if i posted this in the right forum , sorry if i didn't.
Thanks
I have an LG G6, international version (H870DS) that has been having bootloop issues for a while now. For the first few months it would come and go -- sometimes it would be a week between issues, sometimes just a few minutes. I tried many things, multiple factory resets, removed the SD card, deleted possible troubles apps, basically anything I could find online to try. But, for a while the phone would work pretty much normally until it decided to restart and loop.
But... about two weeks ago the phone got into its bootloop and never came out -- I can't get past the LG logo screen anymore. If I let the phone go for a while eventually it gets to a green screen talking about a RAM dump. One time I managed to get it to a screen talking about unlocking the bootloader but that part got a bit over my head. Basically, I can let the batter die but as soon as I plug it in, the phone starts lopping again for 15 minutes or so, eventually ending at that green screen.
Over the last few days I have tried downloading a stock KDZ file to try to flash stock ROM back onto the phone. The problem is, I can't get the phone to communicate with my computer no matter what I do. I've downloaded LGUP, installed all the drivers, tried the LG Flash Tool and pretty much anything else I could find -- but I just can't get anything to recognize the phone, even when I get it into download mode. I know the problem isn't with drivers because when I try my wife's identical G6 on my computer it gets recognized right away.
I should mention that I never tried to tweak anything with the phone -- the issue has been occurring since it was basically brand new. I am by no means an idiot when it comes to tech but also far from an expert, but I have done my research and tried everything I could.
So -- basically I am out of options and appealing to anyone who can help. I currently live in Africa and have no access to LG service centers. I have spent upwards of 10 hours trying to figure this out now and I just don't know what else to try. Any tips or advice would be incredibly appreciated. Thank you!
This looks like a hardware failure. if you have warranty, you should send it back to them. The seller can't take care of the warranty ?
I am having a bug that has baffled Samsung, T-mobile and at&t and I figured I would try coming here for help.
I bought a s8 off of the app letgo. It was carrier locked to t-mobile. So we met at a tmobile and he paid off the rest of his contract then tmobile said that the phone would be eligible for unlock. So I took the phone home and got it unlocked by calling tmobile customer support. It worked for like an hour. Then I realized that there was an ota update for the phone, so I decided to download it. When I downloaded it it said removing tmobile apps. So I thought awesome no more bloat wear, I okayed it then left it to update. When I came back the phone was stuck in a bootloop with the at&t logo showing up instead of the tmobile one (I had an att sim card in at the time of the update). I booted into recovery mode and factory reset the phone. Now in the developer settings it lists demo phone and the baseband version is unknown as is the imei. I took it to att, they said they had never heard of something like that happening, and to contact tmobile, so I went to tmobile and they said they had never seen it ever, then I went to samsung and they said to go to tmobile and I have just been looping between the two saying that there is nothing they can do. So I pretty much have a mint condition phone that I can't use on a network because something got corrupted or the wrong software got installed during the ota update. Is there any thing you guys can think of that could make it so my phone actually works. Also I know it isn't stolen because I have checked the imei with tmobile and samsung, and I watched the guy I bought the phone from pay off the rest of his bill in front of me.
Thank you in advance for any of your help.