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I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
fugy56 said:
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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Odin will flash, takes less than 5 minutes.
Is there any data running that you can see? I mean at the bottom left. I would suggest you turn off the phone, battery pull, wait for 5 minutes, and reflash back.
If it semi bricked, use JIG to revive it.
Either way, you can't be letting the phone there for the next few days etc right?
Did you click Start in Odin??
Although i don't have an s2(will be getting one soon) did you try to reset your pc? When i was flasing my sgsl i was stuck in this situation where odin seems to freeze everytime. I restarted my pc and poof, flashed without a problem
Edit: was flashing successful? If so maybe you should follow the instruction from the post below.
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This might sound stupid but did you have 'auto-reboot' checked? It happened to me once even though I have flashed hundreds of times. Odin was still open after flashing a kernel and never reset.
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
Flash CWM kernel, download CM7 rom, copy it on SDCard (mount USB storage in CWM, connect to PC via USB, copy ROM), flash ROM from CWM
fugy56 said:
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
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Try to go into recovery mode and factory reset and clear cache and try flashing again (make sure you are on download mode)
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Hold power button to off it (hold a lil longer for this).
Then Go into recovery mode (power, home button and volume up at same time). Try do wipe all data, cache and even dalvik. Reboot and see if that works.
Alternatively, at the same place, go into restore backup.
The man said: "I can't go into recovery mode"
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Recovery mode doesn't work - nope. But thanks anyway. It's nice to see that people at least try to help. Big hugs to you all.
If I try to flash CWM, I come into the same freeze again. Mindbending stuff ala Samsung, huh. They clearly don't make idiot-safe products. I'm stuck. My next phone might be a StarTAC...
Has happened to me before. KIES was opened. I closed all KIES files and the flashing fun started again~
Good point, make sure Kies isn't running when using Odin!
Also, now that you've flashed CWM, can't you boot on it?
Kies is not running and whatever I flash - it freezes. The green progress bar in Odin reaches maybe 1 cm, but no blue progress bar is visible on the phone as usually happens when flashing. It just says, "Downloading... Don't turn off target!!"
Am I slowly heading towards the brutal-axe-method?
Sounds like the NAND is damaged to me, but I'm no expert...
"NAND" means? Why does it sound like it's damaged? How can it get repaired?
NAND is the flash chip (internal sdcard). Seems that its damaged because you're unable to fully flash it.
I don't think you can have that repaired (if the NAND is truly damaged, like I said I'm no expert), you'd have to get the phone replaced.
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
lol I hope for you that I'm wrong also!
fugy56 said:
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
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Something similar had happened with me too. The phone was stuck b/w flashing with odin. And the startscreen was showing those 3 icons. It was soft bricked.
But I then finally fixed it by flashing CF and then a ROM
Hi all,
On a regular P500 with stock Android 2.2, build FRF91, software version LG-P500-V10b, the yellow screen Emergency Mode!! appeared after a regular restart and would go any further. I couldn't connect this situation to any of the apps that were installed.
Also, on regular usage, the Emergency mode scrren may appear out of nowhere and the phone is off the network.
This phone is used by my wife, she's not a hacker, she just want's to sleep the baby with melodies from this phone.
If I let the battery out for more that 15min it will boot back the normal way, but it isn't seen by Windows, it senses the device when plugged in but it says "device unplugged"
I followed several guides in the forum, and I saw there are two ways of writing something to the device:
1. "downgrade" the phone to the original firmware, like here Guide for newbies - LG OPTIMUS P500
2. write a new ROM, like here [ROM] (OFFICIAL) [email protected]_2.3.3_v2- Power Menu +franco-kernel+New Boot+ How to Guide
My obvious problem is the phone not being seen by Windows. I started it on purpose in Emergency Mode with Vol up+back key+Power and it appeared in device manager as LGE Mobile USB modem #2.
First I tried to write a new ROM, like at point 2. above, with LGMDP THUNDER v1.5, but I run into this error, after pressing the Start (write ROM button): Error! Partition Table. Here is a screen shot.
The I tried the other option, to "downgrade" the phone to the original firmware, with KDZ Updater.
I found V10E_00.kdz, although I think I should use V10B but I didn't found it. Search on this forum is a pain because it works one time in a hundred (it says something about maintenance).
KDZUpdater did its job successfully but the phone rebooted and halted on "Android" screen, that's it. Then I removed the battery, powered it back up and, surprise, my friend the Emergency Mode!! is back again.
So this phone doesn't seem to be bricked, nor isn't stuck forever in emergency mode, but also is not reliable anymore because of the emergency mode appearing randomly.
Please, slap me in the face with a link saying "dude, search worked for me an here's the fix".
What I can tell you for sure is that I didn't saw the partition table error before on this forum.
hmm... try again with kdz with correct version and do all things again but wait until all works done. don't be so fast
and come here again and tell what happened
If it is stuck on android logo after flashing kdZ, take out battery and press voldown+home+power button to hard reset
Sent from my LG-P500
Indeed it was stuck on the android logo after flashing with KDZ. Hard reset worked!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
After this I had Android 2.2.2 running, then I started LGMobile software updater Agent from LG PC Suite and it updated the OS to 2.3.3. After finishing, the phone rebooted to Emergency mode again, but I did another hard reset and now it works perfectly, it reboots properly.
I guess the root problem was a corrupt file system.
A little offtopic since we are at it. for you guys what proved to be the best rom/kernel combination for best battery life?
Thanks again!
Later edit:
New updates: the phone doesn't behave normally as it began above. Later after the update, I tried to connect the phone to Windows PC and surprise, it didn't saw it as it was supposed to, the problem encountered at the beginning of this post reappeared:
Device driver software was not successfully installed
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Although I have the correct drivers, because when I connect a friend's LG P500 it is seen properly.
After this, I rebooted the device and, surprise again, it booted to Emergency Mode. I unplugged the battery and let it for a while, then it booted normally but still it isn't seen by Windows.
Is this a software (ROM/Kernel) issue or a hardware issue?
I mention the my friend's LG P500 has the same factory provided update with Android 2.3.3, build GRI40, soft version V20g, kernel 2.6.35.10-perf [email protected] #1 and it doesn't have any problems.
Update: I can not even charge the device after I power it down. When I insert the charger, the emergency screen appears right away and it stays that way. I don't know even if the device is charging.
The workaround is to unplug the battery and leave it for 15-30 min or more and then it starts properly, but the problem in the post above is still present.
lmihaila said:
Update: I can not even charge the device after I power it down. When I insert the charger, the emergency screen appears right away and it stays that way. I don't know even if the device is charging.
The workaround is to unplug the battery and leave it for 15-30 min or more and then it starts properly, but the problem in the post above is still present.
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Just try using froyo, dont upgrade to gingerbread, and see the problem still persist.
aspee said:
hmm... try again with kdz with correct version and do all things again but wait until all works done. don't be so fast
and come here again and tell what happened
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What is supposed to be the correct version? I tried these rom's: V10A_00.kdz, V10B_00.kdz, V10E_00.kdz, V20B_00.kdz with KDZ Updater in all possible combinations and got the error "Upgrade error WParam:100. LParam:502" at each attempt.
terratrix said:
If it is stuck on android logo after flashing kdZ, take out battery and press voldown+home+power button to hard reset
Sent from my LG-P500
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Now this doesn't work anymore, it starts into the Emergency Mode each time.
terratrix said:
Just try using froyo, dont upgrade to gingerbread, and see the problem still persist.
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I can not flash any rom on it, it stays in the Emergency Mode screen. It is the same thins I mentioned to Aspee above.
Is my phone bricked?!
Now what?
My phone was acting wack so I decided to reboot and all of a sudden I saw the same screen that you are experiencing, but I just battery pulled and everything went back to normal. I have yet to experience this yet again though. (Running 6.5.7? CM7/Franco's kernel v19.?) Happened a while ago don't remember versions. I know I'm not much help but just saying I got this problem as well .
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What is supposed to be the correct version? I tried these rom's: V10A_00.kdz, V10B_00.kdz, V10E_00.kdz, V20B_00.kdz with KDZ Updater in all possible combinations and got the error "Upgrade error WParam:100. LParam:502" at each attempt.
Now this doesn't work anymore, it starts into the Emergency Mode each time.
I can not flash any rom on it, it stays in the Emergency Mode screen. It is the same thins I mentioned to Aspee above.
Is my phone bricked?!
Now what?
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if you have emergency mode theres always a chance your phone flash by kdz delete all drivers follow the tutorial on kdz and install the drives they provide and try more then one time because when hi the 1 and last time hi use lg mobile updater to update my phone it stop in midlle and hi was stuck in emergency mode,i tried a lot of times some times windows dont detect my phone others it do but kdz dont i dont count but only several times of tryng the kdz works...
but emergency mode random i never read or see in my phone if you get it work on froyo or gingerbrad and that still happens hi think you should go to warranty and say that in a midle of update byLG software your phone stay that way they will fix it....
Reminder: my phone boots to Emergency Mode after you power it off. While in emergency mode, if you unplug the battery it will boot the same way. If you leave the battery out for more than aprox 15 min, it will bot the OS it has written on it. Why??
After more an more hours spent on it I can conclude to this: my phone is to be seen by Windows only in emergency mode. I was able to flash it with KDZ while in emergency mode but with errors (Upgrage error: Wparam:100 LParam:6).
I was able also to flash it once with LGMDP but it stayed in the emergency mode screen and didn't rebooted itself, so again with an error.
I flashed it with both V10B and V20G and it behaves the same: while in Android, it isn't seen by Windows (with or without USB debugging) and if you reboot, it boots to Emergency Mode. Why??
it´the first time hi read something similar but if you cant or if you have a chance to try in other pc do it but if you cant leave that way take to lg center service and tell them that was making oficial update from their program and phone stuck like that they will fix it for free i dont now how to help you
I tried to connect the phone on three different machines, two Windows Seven and one XP. On XP I had the most success with flashing the phone.
sir lmihaila, i have the same problem. exactly the same. been following this thread since you posted it, still no solutions, got this phone cheap from a friend, it was on LG stock rom, not sure what he did on it, but it already was doing the Emergency mode.
i update a month ago to CM7, tried different kernels and roms, it was still happening on all of them, was about to try kdz, but then i saw your post saying it didnt work..
so until we found a solution, i guess we never turn phone off, or if it did, leave battery out, mine works out of Emergency mode after 5 mins of battery out.
bajie23, I'm glad you posted.
Indeed there is no solution yet, but I did some progress today. I played with the phone with it's battery unlugged and plugged his power adapter.
On a normal P500 the LG logo would appear and it would tell you to put the back cover and battery back. On mine, guess what, the emergency screen appeared.
But with a little knack, I pressed vol down+home+power and plugged the power adapter at the same time and the LG logo appeared as at a normal P500.
Then I inserted the battery, the device showed another wired attention triangle and Android System Recovery logo popped up, then I pressed Home and the Android System Recovery menu appeared. See pictures:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/846/20110915230511.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/20110915233836.jpg/
I could move trough the items in there with vol up - vol down but I couldn't press OK because none of LG P500 button did anything regarding this. I prepared even a new ROM on the SD card, renamed it to update.zip like in the Android System Recovery menu, but in vain because I cannot validate an action.
I exited this mode by unplugging the battery and power adapter,
I tried once again to enter Android System Recovery but I couldn't pass over the emergency screen anymore.
Just for the record, when you shake your phone do you also hear a little piece of something moving in the upper part of the device, right behind the earpiece? Does your handset has dropped marks? Has it ever been dropped, hit?
On my friend's functional P500 this noise isn't heard.
LS: bajie23, you said you tried different kernels and roms, how did you flashed them?
that was my first post. registered here just for this issue.
no moving parts inside, haven't dropped phone yet, no damage showing it has been..
i used clockworkmod recovery to flash - try to google it, there are tutorials, but i cant post links yet on this forum.
i installed recovery mode using "rom manager v4.3.1.3" app..
it simply instals recovery mode on start up. you can go to it by holding volDown+home+power. then vol up and down to navigate, menu button to select.
you can instal. zip from your sd using recovery mode.
problem is with our phone, booting in recovery mode gets you to that F&*%In "Emergency mode!" screen. you need to keep battery detached for 3-5 mins, put battery back then hold volDown+home+power, do not let go until the recovery screen appears.
you can instal kernels and roms using recovery mode, there are options to wipe the cache and everything, tried all of them, but guess what? still F^&*% "Emergency mode"
looks like our problem is deeper than the start up..
*next thing i will try is to revert back to original rom, try to unroot, and see if it helps, even though it doesn't appear to be on the rom or kernel.. then i'll try your step to see if i can get partition table error as well..
**i remember seeing on a site saying Emergency mode is like a test mode for lg that they use to flash..
Hi folks,
I have a Optimus One in the same condition. I tried to update Android to Gingerbread using the LG software and now it's pretty much always in "Emergency mode". I'didn't find any way to flash it again even with the stock rom. It seems that the usb port is not working correctly...
I'm using this procedure to let my P500 boot in "normal" way, and so far it seems to be working:
1) while the O1 is in Emergency mode, and the battery is almost fully charged, connect the charger a few minutes, let's say, 3 -5 min.
2) after that, remove the charger plug AND the battery
3) replace the battery on the phone
4) press the power button for 1-2 sec.
The phone should boot normally.
This procedure doesn't solve the "emergency mode" issue, but at least makes the phone usable.
Update: this procedure isn't working now!
I got this problem, too.
Bought LG P500 on 12nd november, updated to GB 2.3.3, no problems for 20 days.
Then trying to connect to PC I notice that it couldn't see it, nor SD and the phone, too.
After connecting to USB if trying to reboot the device it goes into emergency mode.
After pulling off the battery for 5 minutes it reboot normally but it is still not seen by the Pc.
After removing the battery and booting normally if I try to reeboot again in goes normally.
So I suppose that there is something conflictting connecting to usb that avoid to boot until memory cleared (battery removed).
I sent the device to LG, yesterday, hope they solve the problem, usb issue?
What about you?
partition table error is due to missing of partition.mbn file during selection of files to flash.
to install custom recovery you can follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318750 (partition file is included here use it if u want for some other purpose, it will be same for p500/optimus one as far as i know)
then flash rom from recovery follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309744
And if you are stuck at boot logo after flashing rom then factoryreset/format from recovery.
aFTER booting into rom if you see no gsm signal then upgrade baseband using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217504
or
flash any other stock rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19006040#post19006040
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324105
mak.3736 said:
partition table error is due to missing of partition.mbn file during selection of files to flash.
to install custom recovery you can follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318750 (partition file is included here use it if u want for some other purpose, it will be same for p500/optimus one as far as i know)
then flash rom from recovery follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309744
And if you are stuck at boot logo after flashing rom then factoryreset/format from recovery.
aFTER booting into rom if you see no gsm signal then upgrade baseband using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217504
or
flash any other stock rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19006040#post19006040
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324105
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I had this problem (not the partition table error) not after a flashing but after 20 days past the flashing, before everything was well.
What can be happened?
I realized that there is something wrong with some LG500 motherboards, regarding USB connections. I too tried to flash the phone using LGMDP but I always got the partition table error. My phone, either in Emergency or in normal mode, is always recognized by the PC thru the USB, but when it starts to communicate it locks ... I cannot flash anymore, and actually it seems that USB port is useless.
I know that there are some special cables, apparently suitable for LG500 too, that can set the device in "download" (emergency?) mode, they use a 130k resistor somehow. If this is real, probably some motherboards are faulty, putting randomly the device in emergency mode, even without the mentioned cable. Pullup/pulldown resistor missing on MB? At first attempt to communicate, the USB controller of the phone locks, probably getting an undefined state. This is my impression.
Since my phone is still under warranty I settled to bring the phone to LG repair service...
Hello. I'm new to the forum, and the issue that brought me here as had me fulling my hair out of the last three days.
I'll try my best to make this short as possible. I have (obviously) AT&T Lg Optimus G (E970) that was running 4.0.4. i rooted and unlocked it and flashed a cm 10.1 using TWRP. Yesterday tried to flash a zip for a transparent status bar mod. But the flash resulted in CM getting stuck on the splash screen. So i booted in TWRP recovery mode to restore from a recent backup. In the midst of wiping my rom and going to restore, i guess my phone died (which was weird because it had a substantial charge). Then it would no longer power on, and the only was i could get ANY response was by plugging it on the charger. All i get it the red indicator light. my phone will only turn on when plugged into the computer. from there the only two thing i can do is enter download mode and boot. and when i try to boot, i will get the lg logo for a moment and the the screen cuts out and goes back the the flashing red light.
so I trien the LGNPST method.
i downloaded the auto LGNPST and installed just fine. downloaded teenybin and lg stock bin. i've tried to flash both (put phone into download mode, select the dll and select the bin file). what happens is everything starts off fine, then when it gets to 67% the phone reboots, then goes back to the flashing red indicator light, and a message on LGNPST will pop up saying the phone has been disconnected, and to reconnect to continue. so i'll unplug the phone, plug it back in, and put it in download mode, and hit continue. LGNPST will say complete but the phone will still be just sitting in download mode. and if i unplug it, it's goes back to square one (red flashing indicator light)
EDIT: i was flashing the v11c stock bin. i just flashed the v20j bin and now we're boot looping while plugged in (lg logo for about 2 seconds, shut off, repeat) progress???
SO SO SORRY FOR THE LONG READ. Just trying to give as much info as possible hoping it helps.
My question is, is this a hard or a soft brick, and do i have any options left? after researching on here i'm hoping JTAG isn't my only option (I don't have the time or funds to go that route) and i saw someone mention taking it back to at&t, butIi don't think that would help me any since rooting the phone voids the warranty, correct?
I'd be eternally grateful for ANY advice. i'm at my wits end, and i've been google researching this for so long i'm starting not to even comprehend what i'm reading. PLEASE HELP!! And thank you so much in advance.
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Hello. I'm new to the forum, and the issue that brought me here as had me fulling my hair out of the last three days.
I'll try my best to make this short as possible. I have (obviously) AT&T Lg Optimus G (E970) that was running 4.0.4. i rooted and unlocked it and flashed a cm 10.1 using TWRP. Yesterday tried to flash a zip for a transparent status bar mod. But the flash resulted in CM getting stuck on the splash screen. So i booted in TWRP recovery mode to restore from a recent backup. In the midst of wiping my rom and going to restore, i guess my phone died (which was weird because it had a substantial charge). Then it would no longer power on, and the only was i could get ANY response was by plugging it on the charger. All i get it the red indicator light. my phone will only turn on when plugged into the computer. from there the only two thing i can do is enter download mode and boot. and when i try to boot, i will get the lg logo for a moment and the the screen cuts out and goes back the the flashing red light.
so I trien the LGNPST method.
i downloaded the auto LGNPST and installed just fine. downloaded teenybin and lg stock bin. i've tried to flash both (put phone into download mode, select the dll and select the bin file). what happens is everything starts off fine, then when it gets to 67% the phone reboots, then goes back to the flashing red indicator light, and a message on LGNPST will pop up saying the phone has been disconnected, and to reconnect to continue. so i'll unplug the phone, plug it back in, and put it in download mode, and hit continue. LGNPST will say complete but the phone will still be just sitting in download mode. and if i unplug it, it's goes back to square one (red flashing indicator light)
EDIT: i was flashing the v11c stock bin. i just flashed the v20j bin and now we're boot looping while plugged in (lg logo for about 2 seconds, shut off, repeat) progress???
SO SO SORRY FOR THE LONG READ. Just trying to give as much info as possible hoping it helps.
My question is, is this a hard or a soft brick, and do i have any options left? after researching on here i'm hoping JTAG isn't my only option (I don't have the time or funds to go that route) and i saw someone mention taking it back to at&t, butIi don't think that would help me any since rooting the phone voids the warranty, correct?
I'd be eternally grateful for ANY advice. i'm at my wits end, and i've been google researching this for so long i'm starting not to even comprehend what i'm reading. PLEASE HELP!! And thank you so much in advance.
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If it is hard bricked when connected to computer it will show up in device manager as QDUSB Device or something similar. You could try to do a factory reset with button combo, be sure phone is powered off then hold power and volume down until menu shows up.
You Can Also Try TeenyBin If Factory Reset Does Not Work
Regards,
acervenky,
XPT
thanks for the reply guys. it looks like my phone is showing up in the device manager under ports as "LGE AndroidNet USB Serial Port (COM3)" is that a good sign? i'm going to try flashing teenybin again.
goplatinum said:
thanks for the reply guys. it looks like my phone is showing up in the device manager under ports as "LGE AndroidNet USB Serial Port (COM3)" is that a good sign? i'm going to try flashing teenybin again.
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Yes, you are not dead in the water. Proceed, young grasshopper.
Sent from my Optimus G using xda app-developers app
All the custom, unofficial 4.2.2 roms I found on XDA require that you be on the latest LG 4.1.2 OTA.
There are also links to stock rom and kernel so you don't have to mess with LGPT whatever. No need to do OTA etc, if you flash this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219953
I also found TWRP to be far easier to install, which is installed by default I think with FreeGee. But you can find thread for the latest TWRP 2.6. TWRP makes flashing and wiping cache/dalvik super easy.
Ok, so i'm starting to think this is a battery issue as opposed to a hardware issue. i could still be wrong. I've flashed the stcok rom after stock rom. When i plug my phone into a computer usb port it LG logo boot loops (and this is the only way i can get to download mode), but when i plug it into the usb wall charger, i just get the red flashing light and no other response. when it's not plugged in i get nothing.It's still showing up as "LGE AndroidNet USB Serial Port" in my device manager and i can still get to dpownload mode just fine, so i know all isn't "according to what i've read and been told". So i'm running out of fixes. I did come accross a thread on here suggesting i unplug the battery and plug it back up. So i'll be getting the tools and praying that works.
I did also come across an interesting thread on another forum. They were saying how id you allowed your battery to drain all the way to true zero (which i think might be possible because my phone died in recovery mode), it wouldn't have enough juice to initiate and monitor the charging process. If this is the case, can the batter be brought back to life? a jump start or something (lol)? or will i have to just replace the battery?
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP SO FAR GUYS.
When you used lgnpst to go to 11c it boot looped because you tried to go backwards from cm. If you did a factory reset afterwards with button combo it should boot. Also can you get into recovery after flashing teenybin to do a reset and flash a ROM?
adfurgerson said:
When you used lgnpst to go to 11c it boot looped because you tried to go backwards from cm. If you did a factory reset afterwards with button combo it should boot. Also can you get into recovery after flashing teenybin to do a reset and flash a ROM?
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i did a factory reset a few times, but it still never booted. and whenever i LGNPST, when it hits 67% the phone reboots and just starts bootlooping (if i flash a stock rom) if i LGNPST teenybin, at 67% the phone will shut off and the flashing red light will just come up. and after each a message will say phone was unplugged or lost connection. after both instances ill plug it back up and put it in download mode again to finish and it will complete, but the phone will just be sitting there in download mode. and if i reboot.... bootloop city.
i cam across this thread that seems to detail my issue perfectly. so i'm going to attempt a teenybin flash one more time to tryt to get recovery mode (havent been able to get it at all), and if that doesn't work i'm going to do a battery pull..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261803&highlight=battery
BATTERY UNPLUG WORK LIKE A CHARM. again, i followed the method [r.]GimP laid out here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43732147#post43732147
i was nervous because i've never opened my (or any other) phone before.
and thanks to the tot link provided by zymphad above, i'm now running jb 4.1.2
THANK YOU GUYS :highfive:
I found LG's camera lacking, but 4.2 has an update for that, plus the camera mod, much improved I think.
Running RootBox great now with 124mhz idle, GPU downclocked to 200 and CPU undervolted to 85, stable and cool. I don't 3d game on phones.
Glad you fixed it, I just hope someone makes a high capacity internal battery for us since taking it apart isn't that difficult.
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Hello community,
I haven't posted here before, so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong.
I have a problem with my Neffos X1 and after browsing the internet for hours nothing helped so far, so I hope some of you can help me out.
My phone is stuck in a bootloop since yesterday evening. I haven't done any updates or new installations recently, so it just happened out of the blue. It loads till the Neffos logo and then restarts over and over again.
Since I can't take the battery out, I tried letting it run out of energy and then restart, but as soon as I connect it to a power source the bootloop will start again.
I read a lot about getting it in recovery mode or to try and flash it, but no matter what combination of buttons I try, nothing is happening. The phone basically doesn't react to anything and just keeps restarting. The only thing I noticed is, that when pushing both volume keys the screen will just stay black (no restarting), but after letting go the bootloop will start again.
I tried flashing it via SP Flash Tools, but the phone also doesn't react to it.
Lots of troubleshooting guides also require, that I have rooted my phone in the past, unfortunatly I haven't. I also read about unlocking the bootloader, but since my phone isn't reacting to any buttons and my laptop also doesn't seem to recognize my phone (probably because it doesn't boot proberly), that doesn't seem like a solution either.
To summarize: I'm stuck in a bootloop with no recovery mode, no rooting, no unlocking bootloader, probably can only use my laptop to do anything remotely.
So, is there anything you can think of, that might help me get out of the bootloop? Or ideas of what I may did wrong when trying the other solutions?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Same problem
I have the same problem, I have tried all kinds of soft reset and nothing is working I also opened the phone to check if anything was not connected properly, but everything seems fine except for that infinite loop. Please help!
Shotzo said:
I have the same problem, I have tried all kinds of soft reset and nothing is working I also opened the phone to check if anything was not connected properly, but everything seems fine except for that infinite loop. Please help!
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Try this
Download phone's Stock Firmware onto your personal computer.
Install the USB MTK Drivers - NOT ANY OTHERS (skip if you have them already installed).
Download and Launch the Smart Phone Flash Tool (SP Flash Tool)
Click the Scatter-loading button to navigate to the Stock Rom you just downloaded.
Select the Scatter File from the extracted Stock Firmware on your computer.
Select the Download Only in the SP flash tool option
Click the Download button to start the Formating process.
Connect your phone via USB to the computer>> holding volume + and volume – button of your phone at the same time or holding power button only so that the flashing process will starting working
Patiently wait for your device to be formatted.
After the formatting is done, a Big Green button will pop up on the SP Flash to show that.
Unplug phone and boot it up.
If you have a boot loop after booting your device, boot into recovery mode and do a factory reset.
Voila, you are all good.
Hi all,
This is a brief guide on what are some things that could go wrong if you decide to flash a new ROM especially GSI as they are quite buggy at the time of writing this post. I'll try to mention as many issues as I can but if something remains, please feel free to write them in the reply.
The guide is aimed for complete beginners who were trying to flash something and are now stuck OR who just want to know what to be prepared for and not to panic. if you are experienced you might not need it but it might just help you with something.
also, as always, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING DOES NOT WORK. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
So let's start with the most common problem. Bootloops!
1 - Bootloops :
What happens? : The title is pretty self-explanatory. You know you are in a bootloop if your phone turns off automatically as soon as it turned on. This generally happens BEFORE the phone actually boots up i.e. in the booting screen but could also happen after the phone completely turned on. There are various causes for this it may be due to a bug in the ROM or missing system files.
How to fix? : If you are flashing a custom ROM then you may want to reboot back to TWRP, wipe and flash it again. It works sometimes if there was an issue with the files.
I am unable to reboot to TWRP my phone is stuck even long pressing the power button does not shut it down! :crying::crying: : well if you are stuck you don't actually need to open the back panel to remove the battery or wait for it to die those won't help. all you need to do is wait for the phone to turn off and IMMEDIATELY press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER button that should get you into TWRP if that doesn't work then you can try pressing and holding the VOLUME UP + DOWN + POWER key as the phone is about to turn on. it might boot you into download mode. if that does not work as well then as the phone is about to turn on, press and hold VOLUME UP + DOWN and plug the phone into PC that will get you booted into download mode eventually. Once you have access to one of these you can continue doing whatever you were doing. To reset everything back to normal (stock, like a new phone) checkout the solution listed below.
2 - I was doing something and now my phone is stuck at charging mode :
What happens? : This has happened to me while flashing PHH GSI. My phone was plugged into the charger and I restarted the phone. turns out it was a fatal mistake for the bugged gsi. The phone now only showed a battery icon that was charging very similar to the one that you would see if your phone is out of battery and you put it to charge. This happens before the phone actually turns on. usually, once you unplug the charger the phone automatically restarts but in my case it didn't. It was stuck at that screen with no way out.
How to fix? : turns out it's pretty easy, it might seem like its doing NOTHING, not responding to power buttons or anything but internally it is. Surprisingly, if you press and hold the VOL UP + DOWN + plug it into the PC it would get you into the download mode.
3 - I flashed GSI and ... :
What happens? : There are MANY things that can go wrong with GSI if you are a beginner I would suggest you stay away from GSI until it supports the device better. For me, I flashed PHH gsi and it went smoothly I booted in but as soon as I was finishing the setup adding fingerprint the ROM went into bootloop. you know how to fix this now. if nothing works, just refer to the reset solution listed below.
4 - "Custom binary blocked by FRP lock" :
What happens? : This usually (at least with me) happens when you are trying to flash something but forget to flash the DmVerity thing. The phone won't turn on and going to download mode will throw you with a line saying FRP lock.
How to fix? : At this point, trying to install custom binaries with Odin probably won't help as for me it simply stated that you cant install custom binaries only Samsung official updates are allowed or something similar. There might be a better/easy solution to this but I found doing a stock reset with Odin worked great. It is given below refer to that.
5 - Phone is in "Emergency firmware recovery" Mode :
What happens? : Turning on the phone throws you into a cyan screen saying that your phone needs emergency firmware recovery which can be done using Samsung smart switch
How to fix? : I believe it is a fantasy way of Samsung saying that your phone is almost dead and nothing remains on it. Fear not, turns out that cyan screen is actually the download mode. so that's a win you don't even have to boot to download mode just connect your phone to pc odin and follow the reset to stock firmware as mentioned below.
6 - I am back in some OS but my internal memory is shortened!!!
What happens? : well you are in the os you wanted but if you check the storage it appears to be shortened. i.e. if your phone has 64gb internal memory it might appear as 30gb or 20gb.
How to fix? : This is a problem caused by missing PIT file in odin. I would not suggest you to manually download the PIT file from somewhere and flash it using odin because doing so got me stuck in the FRP LOCK (4th) situation. I would suggest that you flash the stock firmware using the method given below.
MASTER SOLUTION/RESET TO STOCK FIRMWARE: if you are new to modding I would suggest that you download the stock firmware files from here BEFORE doing anything as the files exceed more than 3GB in size and not everyone has fast internet. if anything goes wrong and you have access to download mode you can follow this and get everything back to stock. Download the stock file AFH given at the link. once you download the stock firmware you just need to extract it and put the respective files in odin and begin flash. it will RESET everything and make it a new phone. I've tried this method and it works always for me.
That concludes my guide. if anyone knows any better solutions to these problems or think I've written something wrong please feel free to correct me. I've faced all of these issues back to back when I tried flashing a GSI and was able to fix all of them so this is just my personal experience.
Lastly, don't panic if something happens wrong happens there is probably a way to fix it.
Depends on many things, but now that we have a working TWRP, life is much easier, and also we have kitchen tools which help as well.
thvardhan said:
Hi all,
This is a brief guide on what are some things that could go wrong if you decide to flash a new ROM especially GSI as they are quite buggy at the time of writing this post. I'll try to mention as many issues as I can but if something remains, please feel free to write them in the reply.
The guide is aimed for complete beginners who were trying to flash something and are now stuck OR who just want to know what to be prepared for and not to panic. if you are experienced you might not need it but it might just help you with something.
also, as always, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING DOES NOT WORK. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
So let's start with the most common problem. Bootloops!
1 - Bootloops :
What happens? : The title is pretty self-explanatory. You know you are in a bootloop if your phone turns off automatically as soon as it turned on. This generally happens BEFORE the phone actually boots up i.e. in the booting screen but could also happen after the phone completely turned on. There are various causes for this it may be due to a bug in the ROM or missing system files.
How to fix? : If you are flashing a custom ROM then you may want to reboot back to TWRP, wipe and flash it again. It works sometimes if there was an issue with the files.
I am unable to reboot to TWRP my phone is stuck even long pressing the power button does not shut it down! :crying::crying: : well if you are stuck you don't actually need to open the back panel to remove the battery or wait for it to die those won't help. all you need to do is wait for the phone to turn off and IMMEDIATELY press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER button that should get you into TWRP if that doesn't work then you can try pressing and holding the VOLUME UP + DOWN + POWER key as the phone is about to turn on. it might boot you into download mode. if that does not work as well then as the phone is about to turn on, press and hold VOLUME UP + DOWN and plug the phone into PC that will get you booted into download mode eventually. Once you have access to one of these you can continue doing whatever you were doing. To reset everything back to normal (stock, like a new phone) checkout the solution listed below.
2 - I was doing something and now my phone is stuck at charging mode :
What happens? : This has happened to me while flashing PHH GSI. My phone was plugged into the charger and I restarted the phone. turns out it was a fatal mistake for the bugged gsi. The phone now only showed a battery icon that was charging very similar to the one that you would see if your phone is out of battery and you put it to charge. This happens before the phone actually turns on. usually, once you unplug the charger the phone automatically restarts but in my case it didn't. It was stuck at that screen with no way out.
How to fix? : turns out it's pretty easy, it might seem like its doing NOTHING, not responding to power buttons or anything but internally it is. Surprisingly, if you press and hold the VOL UP + DOWN + plug it into the PC it would get you into the download mode.
3 - I flashed GSI and ... :
What happens? : There are MANY things that can go wrong with GSI if you are a beginner I would suggest you stay away from GSI until it supports the device better. For me, I flashed PHH gsi and it went smoothly I booted in but as soon as I was finishing the setup adding fingerprint the ROM went into bootloop. you know how to fix this now. if nothing works, just refer to the reset solution listed below.
4 - "Custom binary blocked by FRP lock" :
What happens? : This usually (at least with me) happens when you are trying to flash something but forget to flash the DmVerity thing. The phone won't turn on and going to download mode will throw you with a line saying FRP lock.
How to fix? : At this point, trying to install custom binaries with Odin probably won't help as for me it simply stated that you cant install custom binaries only Samsung official updates are allowed or something similar. There might be a better/easy solution to this but I found doing a stock reset with Odin worked great. It is given below refer to that.
5 - Phone is in "Emergency firmware recovery" Mode :
What happens? : Turning on the phone throws you into a cyan screen saying that your phone needs emergency firmware recovery which can be done using Samsung smart switch
How to fix? : I believe it is a fantasy way of Samsung saying that your phone is almost dead and nothing remains on it. Fear not, turns out that cyan screen is actually the download mode. so that's a win you don't even have to boot to download mode just connect your phone to pc odin and follow the reset to stock firmware as mentioned below.
6 - I am back in some OS but my internal memory is shortened!!!
What happens? : well you are in the os you wanted but if you check the storage it appears to be shortened. i.e. if your phone has 64gb internal memory it might appear as 30gb or 20gb.
How to fix? : This is a problem caused by missing PIT file in odin. I would not suggest you to manually download the PIT file from somewhere and flash it using odin because doing so got me stuck in the FRP LOCK (4th) situation. I would suggest that you flash the stock firmware using the method given below.
MASTER SOLUTION/RESET TO STOCK FIRMWARE: if you are new to modding I would suggest that you download the stock firmware files from here BEFORE doing anything as the files exceed more than 3GB in size and not everyone has fast internet. if anything goes wrong and you have access to download mode you can follow this and get everything back to stock. Download the stock file AFH given at the link. once you download the stock firmware you just need to extract it and put the respective files in odin and begin flash. it will RESET everything and make it a new phone. I've tried this method and it works always for me.
That concludes my guide. if anyone knows any better solutions to these problems or think I've written something wrong please feel free to correct me. I've faced all of these issues back to back when I tried flashing a GSI and was able to fix all of them so this is just my personal experience.
Lastly, don't panic if something happens wrong happens there is probably a way to fix it.
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Absolutely well written for new users who wish to get into the world of Android on their Samsung. Might I suggest a few corrections?
Akhil99 said:
Absolutely well written for new users who wish to get into the world of Android on their Samsung. Might I suggest a few corrections?
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Sure by all means, feel free to suggest any modifications/corrections.:highfive: