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[Q] Bricked LG O2X

Hi everone, hope someone can help me.
I rooted my phone with SuperOneClick, installed Titanium Backup & ROM Manager. With ROM Manager, I flashed the latest MIUI rom & the phone performed perfectly for several weeks.
Not being satisfied with the speed, I decided to overclock the phone.
Yesterday, I did a stupid thing: I flashed "P999-cm-kernel-0.3.8-ext4-sv.zip" with ROM Manager and this action bricked my phone.
Now the phone will not boot. It is completely bricked.
Turning it on with or without the use of the volume buttons freezes the phone at the LG startup logo.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I know a shop in sheffield, uk which does jtag repair. Shops called funfoneshop, i have used them would recommend highly.
Hope you fix your phone mate
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Hello!
You could try this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229407
Or maybe easier flash one of these using smartflash....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035041&highlight=firmware
If you can get into recovery - push power on and volume donw till 2nd logo shows up then release!
...flash latest CM7-Kang (see my sig)...just put it on the sd card using a card reader.

use nvflash. it will bring your phone to be unbricked again
Code:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/335474-25-mar-nvflash-stock-rom-release-v10b-dated-1300166062-15032011/
or use smartflash like medizinemann said above.

As @Medizinmann said use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229407 I had the same problem and this helped me recover my phone! (no data loss!!!)

Didnt you flash recovery or can you not access it holding vol down while pressing power and hold both till blue lg logo appears then released. Install or backup from there
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium

[Q] Help me pls.. I think I've really bricked my P990

Hi all kind bros and sis,
Please help me out as I think I've really bricked my less than 2 months brand new Optimus 2X..
You see.. I rooted my P990 using unlock root and chanced upon CM7 and thought of giving it a try. I installed clockworkmod and downloaded the stable release of 7.1 for Optimus 2x.. following the instruction to do a Nandroid backup and proceeded with the Mod..
Not knowing that I need to wipe everything including data.. I just selected the Dalvik cache wipe and proceed with the mod. The process went for more than 15mins and I saw some graphics (the android figure going round and round) but it just stuck there... the screen went blank and when I touched those home or back buttons.. they will lighted but nothing happens. I can't power it off also. So I manually took out the battery and put it back before powering up again. The android picture appeared again briefly for about 1 min and just hanged there. I took out the battery again and this time it was dead.. no matter what I press : vol + and power buttons together; home+Vol+ + power down; Vol- + power down.. all those do not revive the phone.
I tried taking out the external SD card and try powering up. The LG logo appeared and got stuck there.
I searched on Google and found the smartflashtool. I tried that and managed to install the NVidia boot recovery driver and stuff correct. Hold the vol+ button and power key before plugging in but the smarttool did not find the com port or communication driver whatever so I couldn't flash it back to stock.
I'm very desperate and stuck now... did I just accidentally burned the board or something? What bad luck I have
If that's the case, will I still be able to bring the phone back to LG service centre and get it repaired?
Please help me.. any kind souls out there. I really liked the phone and hoped to bring it back. else it's such a shortlived phone... really breaks my heart to see this..
Thanks in advance...

humblepie88 said:
Hi all kind bros and sis,
Please help me out as I think I've really bricked my less than 2 months brand new Optimus 2X..
You see.. I rooted my P990 using unlock root and chanced upon CM7 and thought of giving it a try. I installed clockworkmod and downloaded the stable release of 7.1 for Optimus 2x.. following the instruction to do a Nandroid backup and proceeded with the Mod..
Not knowing that I need to wipe everything including data.. I just selected the Dalvik cache wipe and proceed with the mod. The process went for more than 15mins and I saw some graphics (the android figure going round and round) but it just stuck there... the screen went blank and when I touched those home or back buttons.. they will lighted but nothing happens. I can't power it off also. So I manually took out the battery and put it back before powering up again. The android picture appeared again briefly for about 1 min and just hanged there. I took out the battery again and this time it was dead.. no matter what I press : vol + and power buttons together; home+Vol+ + power down; Vol- + power down.. all those do not revive the phone.
I tried taking out the external SD card and try powering up. The LG logo appeared and got stuck there.
I searched on Google and found the smartflashtool. I tried that and managed to install the NVidia boot recovery driver and stuff correct. Hold the vol+ button and power key before plugging in but the smarttool did not find the com port or communication driver whatever so I couldn't flash it back to stock.
I'm very desperate and stuck now... did I just accidentally burned the board or something? What bad luck I have
If that's the case, will I still be able to bring the phone back to LG service centre and get it repaired?
Please help me.. any kind souls out there. I really liked the phone and hoped to bring it back. else it's such a shortlived phone... really breaks my heart to see this..
Thanks in advance...
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Try using SmartFlashTool, download the LG stock ROM (can be found here in XDA forum, i'll help you find the link), flash the .bin and .fls files.

humblepie88 said:
Please help me out as I think I've really bricked my less than 2 months brand new Optimus 2X..
...
"Hold the vol+ button and power key before plugging in but the smarttool did not find the com port..."
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Turn off the phone. Hold Vol-DOWN while plugging it in. Start Smartflash and see the com-ports magically appear.

Follow trymhansen's instructions. He helped me before with my softbricked phone.

I hope you get your O2X back to life! Keep us posted
Best of luck to you!
PS. I also believe you should pull out the battery after turning off the phone in Trym's instructions. Trym correct me if I'm wrong please.

Hi All,
Thanks for your kind replies. I did follow your instruction. Take out the battery (I removed the ext SDcard as well), press and hold -vol and plug in the phone via USB. Afterwhich start up smartflash tool.. still nothing happens and no com ports are found.. The version of smartflashtool that I used is Dec 2010. Do I need to get the latest one and also the LG united drivers installed?
I also tried starting smartflash tool before the sequence.. still the same. BTW.. my OS is Win 7. Is it supported?
Really at my end's wit. Hope I can bring my phone back to life soon and I'm not really bricking it. I heard Samsung phones are not that easy to brick and can get to the recovery mode pretty easily. is it true?
Please help me.. thanks

Hi bros,
Attached are my screenshots from the device manager and smartflash tool... both seems not able to find the phone and allocate a com port. I've tried installing the latest LG mobile driver 3.6 but no help as well

Have you followed instructions as described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008070 ?
Also, try to attach your phone directly to computer, using usb ports from computer mainboard. I have experienced problems when attaching it via extension usb cord or attaching it to computer case ports. (I hope that you can understand what I have mean to say with usb )

Hi Memhis,
Yes.. I followed exactly the instructions from the thread and I've plugged into a USB port directly to the computer which is one of the ports in front.. not via any extension or USB hub.. still it did not detect.
I'll try to use another computer which is running Win XP and try again. I've downloaded those 3 files from that thread you recommended try using those instead.. hope it can be detected this time else I think I'll have to send to LG service for repair tomorrow.
I've been jailbreaking and modding my Iphone a lot and everytime whenever there's a near brick situation.. I'm able to fix it but not this time with an Android or LG perhaps... I hope I don't have to go to the extend of using ADB low level to push some files which I saw in one of the thread that one of the guys did that.. but I doubt I can since my windows can't even detect the phone!!
Maybe this will be my first and last LG phone if I ever get it repaired...

humblepie88 said:
Hi Memhis,
Yes.. I followed exactly the instructions from the thread and I've plugged into a USB port directly to the computer which is one of the ports in front.. not via any extension or USB hub.. still it did not detect.
I'll try to use another computer which is running Win XP and try again. I've downloaded those 3 files from that thread you recommended try using those instead.. hope it can be detected this time else I think I'll have to send to LG service for repair tomorrow.
I've been jailbreaking and modding my Iphone a lot and everytime whenever there's a near brick situation.. I'm able to fix it but not this time with an Android or LG perhaps... I hope I don't have to go to the extend of using ADB low level to push some files which I saw in one of the thread that one of the guys did that.. but I doubt I can since my windows can't even detect the phone!!
Maybe this will be my first and last LG phone if I ever get it repaired...
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launch smartflashtool first, extract the .fls and .bin files, hold down volume at the same time plug in the usb port to your comp. you must see a s/w updating logo in your phone's screen and smartflash should detect your phone. then click start!
Sent using a phone.

Hi mrgian,
I just tried to revive my phone by using the same method on a different laptop running on Win XP.. plugged directly to a side USB port but still no luck. There's no s/w updating logo appearing on my phone and smartflashtool also failed to detect my phone. I've found another thread opened by another user and my situation is exactly the same as his :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161583
But lucky for him is that he's able to get it working after changing to another PC but I've tried 3 different machines and no luck so far...
I'll try to use the NVflash as a last resort and see if I've any luck with NVflash at all.. If it failed again.. I think I've no choice but to send it to the repair centre for servicing then..

humblepie88 said:
Hi mrgian,
I just tried to revive my phone by using the same method on a different laptop running on Win XP.. plugged directly to a side USB port but still no luck. There's no s/w updating logo appearing on my phone and smartflashtool also failed to detect my phone. I've found another thread opened by another user and my situation is exactly the same as his :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161583
But lucky for him is that he's able to get it working after changing to another PC but I've tried 3 different machines and no luck so far...
I'll try to use the NVflash as a last resort and see if I've any luck with NVflash at all.. If it failed again.. I think I've no choice but to send it to the repair centre for servicing then..
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does the laptop have lg drivers installed?
Sent using a phone.

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mrgian said:
does the laptop have lg drivers installed?
Sent using a phone.
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Yes.. I've installed the latest LG united mobile driver version 3.6. Any wrong with that version... Really don't know where / what is missing or my phone is really fried after just one mod attempt?
I've also tried NVflash and it's stuck at the "bootloader initialization" screen....
Nothing appeared on the phone... not even LG logo. Can't believe LG phones are so fragile and unmodifiable

humblepie88 said:
Yes.. I've installed the latest LG united mobile driver version 3.6. Any wrong with that version... Really don't know where / what is missing or my phone is really fried after just one mod attempt?
I've also tried NVflash and it's stuck at the "bootloader initialization" screen....
Nothing appeared on the phone... not even LG logo. Can't believe LG phones are so fragile and unmodifiable
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can you entet CWM? Press volume down til s/w will appear.
Sent using a phone.

try to charge the battery first...power off your device and charge it...maybe leave it charging for about 1hr even if you dont see anything on the screen( i believe after plugin the charger you will see the charging logo but it will disapear after a few seconds)...after 1 hr unplug and try to check if it will boot to clockwork recovery...if yes then just do complete data wipe...also try installing the ext3 back.zip, it will help delete system files(sometimes CWR is not deleting this)...hope this help

chupi_24 said:
try to charge the battery first...power off your device and charge it...maybe leave it charging for about 1hr even if you dont see anything on the screen( i believe after plugin the charger you will see the charging logo but it will disapear after a few seconds)...after 1 hr unplug and try to check if it will boot to clockwork recovery...if yes then just do complete data wipe...also try installing the ext3 back.zip, it will help delete system files(sometimes CWR is not deleting this)...hope this help
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you got a point there.
Sent using a phone.

humblepie88 said:
Yes.. I followed exactly the instructions from the thread and I've plugged into a USB port directly to the computer which is one of the ports in front.. not via any extension or USB hub.. still it did not detect.
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When you say an USB port in the front do you mean an USB in the back? Because the ones in front are the case ones, the ones in the back are the good ones, i.e. the ones that are directly attached to the mobo.

LarsPT said:
When you say an USB port in the front do you mean an USB in the back? Because the ones in front are the case ones, the ones in the back are the good ones, i.e. the ones that are directly attached to the mobo.
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I've tried the recovery via 2 diff laptops and plugging in directly to one of the side USB ports but to no avail as well.. I think I've plugged in the phone correctly but there's no reaction at all/

mrgian said:
can you entet CWM? Press volume down til s/w will appear.
Sent using a phone.
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How to enter CWM? I can't even power up the phone and no reaction at all when plugged into USB via smartflash.. the screen remains black. It's liked the whole phone is burned or something... but strange thing is that it can detect APX and asked to install drivers... but after successfully installing the Nvidia boot recovery driver.. the com ports does not get discovered.. What is wrong?

chupi_24 said:
try to charge the battery first...power off your device and charge it...maybe leave it charging for about 1hr even if you dont see anything on the screen( i believe after plugin the charger you will see the charging logo but it will disapear after a few seconds)...after 1 hr unplug and try to check if it will boot to clockwork recovery...if yes then just do complete data wipe...also try installing the ext3 back.zip, it will help delete system files(sometimes CWR is not deleting this)...hope this help
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I plugged in the phone with battery but there was no charge logo or whatever.. the screen remains blank.. I'll try to leave it charging and see what happens. But I've remembered there was still about 80% power when this disaster happened and I've taken out the battery since.. so the charge should have remain? Btw.. where can I get this ext3 back.zip and how to use it? thanks

I just instaled a new room and cant Turn on phone

Hello XDA forums.
So i have just recently isntaled the new official cyanogen mod 7 on lg optimus x2 p990.
It was Constantly showing me the cyanogen mod bootscreen i powered it off and powered it back on to try to get in the flashscreen ( i was using clockwork mod to do all the work) but now the phone wont turn on!
I cant do anything it simply is off.
Tried doing power button+sound down to get to the menu but it just doesnt.
Please help me ill give any necessary info :S

Hello you should look to try to download smartflash and see if the phone by removing the battery and connecting it to PC, hold down the power button with vol - enters the "software update" from there you can flash the rom stock smatflash and resolve all !

Nevermind the phone after some time with the batery was able to launch into the flash menu and fixed by removing factory settings Thanks anyways xda people.
Also i need to instal the good thing´s on my phone could somone redirect me to that?

ultimateon said:
Nevermind the phone after some time with the batery was able to launch into the flash menu and fixed by removing factory settings Thanks anyways xda people.
Also i need to instal the good thing´s on my phone could somone redirect me to that?
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So have you solved?? Want to install a good rom??

Pascalone19 said:
So have you solved?? Want to install a good rom??
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If possible direct me to a decent one since i am using the default cyanogen mod 7 one.
Also can you direct me to the Google apps installation file zip?

ultimateon said:
If possible direct me to a decent one since i am using the default cyanogen mod 7 one.
Also can you direct me to the Google apps installation file zip?
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This is the link for GAPPS that interest you http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Version

haha had this. its stck on the loading boot screen with the android on a skateboard going past. over and over and over. then u reaslise its not loading or initializing on 1st boot. then your battery runs flat and wont turn on. and your thinking NOOOOO MORE O2X..
however. CHARGE SOME and turns on. yay. CWM reflash or reset/hard . FIX phew!!!!
so your good?

Also don't forget to wipe the caches when you flash a rom. It could be the source of your boot looping as well
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA

[Q] Bootlooping on LG optimus Black

I have been using zeus v7.6 perfectly untill today. While i was texting someone the screen started wobbling arround. (behaving a bit like the windows xp error message when you move it arround and it leaves a trail behind it). i tried restarting in recovery mode but freezed on the lg logo, having a small faint wite line at the bottom of the screen. I have tried smartflash tool with no succes, and i have also tried the script from the cotkey, but it gets stuck at the first step. Also, i cannot interact with the KDZ updater ... I could really use some help, as i cannot afford a new phone :-/

HeinekenAmstel said:
I have been using zeus v7.6 perfectly untill today. While i was texting someone the screen started wobbling arround. (behaving a bit like the windows xp error message when you move it arround and it leaves a trail behind it). i tried restarting in recovery mode but freezed on the lg logo, having a small faint wite line at the bottom of the screen. I have tried smartflash tool with no succes, and i have also tried the script from the cotkey, but it gets stuck at the first step. Also, i cannot interact with the KDZ updater ... I could really use some help, as i cannot afford a new phone :-/
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Have you tried to remove battery and connect the phone by usb to pc, pressing vol + button?

danielr18 said:
Have you tried to remove battery and connect the phone by usb to pc, pressing vol + button?
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Yes, i have entered S/W mode. Smartflash tool finds my phone, i set the CP and AP bin, it tells me it finished with the ""TADA"" noise and my phone restarts... well, it doesnt start, it just stays on the lg logo with the lights flashing :-/. I have tried many different versions but none starts :-/ Thank you for replying btw

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HeinekenAmstel said:
Yes, i have entered S/W mode. Smartflash tool finds my phone, i set the CP and AP bin, it tells me it finished with the ""TADA"" noise and my phone restarts... well, it doesnt start, it just stays on the lg logo with the lights flashing :-/. I have tried many different versions but none starts :-/ Thank you for replying btw
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B2C app and emergency recovery? The lg update tool...
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app

N00BY0815 said:
B2C app and emergency recovery? The lg update tool...
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app
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I have tried it allready in the past with no succes :-/ idk why, but last time i managed to unbrick it it had quite a bit of luck involved... my basic problem is that im from a laptop and its in greek. theres something wrong with the language and i can only see symbols ... ill try again in the evening and ill let you know

Ran the KDZ updater but phone stiil stays on the lg logo...
Still unsuccessfull... Here is the log file:

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HeinekenAmstel said:
Still unsuccessfull... Here is the log file:
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Looks strange... do you also have a log of sft? And do you run those programs as admin? You re on XP right? Did you already disable your antivirus? Try another usb port/pc? Are you sure yourr files are good? Maybe dl the v20s from my noob how to and compare md5 sums afterwards.
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app

no, i have not tried disabling antivirus and i am using windows 7. i will disable antivirus now and send you the SfT Log

Smart Flash Log
Here is the Smart Flash log

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HeinekenAmstel said:
no, i have not tried disabling antivirus and i am using windows 7. i will disable antivirus now and send you the SfT Log
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Did you run sft as admin? And follow the readme? You have to disable something in the device manager.
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app

great, lg emergency recovery tool tells me this model is not supported for upgrading =.=

Similar problem, I was on Huexs´s 6.4, was rooted, recovery was working, then I flashed v30d by tantrums, was using it without problems, then some problems with sd card, from that point I am not able to run recovery, so I tried to flash patched v20 with Smartflash, but when it goes to rebooting, it always stay in bootloop. Only way for me is flash v30b, then root it with Unlockroot, but thats all, I can normaly use phone rooted, but I am not able to push to phone recovery image, so I can not flash any zip file ( like new kernels. etc.).

Managed to flash V30b
i managd to flash the v30b by the kdz updater but... Everything was working normally. I shut off the phone so i can go to sleep and i put it to charge. the picture i got is the lg logo with a white faint line down the bottom of the screen again. I unplug the charger and remove the battery. The next morning it worked perfectly again for aprox. 9 hours, that i was at school. Then i try texting my gf and the pictures below show what happened... WTH? Any help would be deeply appreciated :-/

OMG are you getting the same problem as redy ? O.O That crazy screen looks like his. :/
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk 2

what prob has redy got?

I got some news about this prob. When it starts, if i lock the device am continue after a while it works ok again for a bit
Sent from my half working LG-P970 using xda app-developers app

@robusto try flashing v30B. then root your OB and flash TWRP recovery. You can do it like this:
1. Install goomanager
2. Open goomanager and provide root permision
3. Hit menu and choose 'Install OpenRecovery'.
Now you have TWRP Recovery and you should be able to flash any .zip file.
It worked for me.
(or you can get twrp recovery just by pushing the twrp recovery image file using terminal emulator).
Good luck!
(sorry for my bad english x_x).
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda premium

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GPaul said:
@robusto try flashing v30B. then root your OB and flash TWRP recovery. You can do it like this:
1. Install goomanager
2. Open goomanager and provide root permision
3. Hit menu and choose 'Install OpenRecovery'.
Now you have TWRP Recovery and you should be able to flash any .zip file.
It worked for me.
(or you can get twrp recovery just by pushing the twrp recovery image file using terminal emulator).
Good luck!
(sorry for my bad english x_x).
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda premium
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I am quite sure this wont work... security error...
Sent from my LG-P970 using xda app-developers app

any idea on how can i restore my imei from the S/W upgrade screen?
the lg united tool reads wrong imei and does not even start upgrading.

I am now on stock V30B Europe, rooted by unlockroot, uninstalled garbage and apps, whitch I dont need, using Holo launcher and LMT and am satisfied, bechmark with antutu 3100. Only I am not able change kernel, what could be phone speed up, but nevermid. I can live with it. Only can be good to convert some kernel.zip to same file, whitch can be flashed with kdz flasher or smartflashtool. Anyway thanks for ideas.
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HeinekenAmstel, try to left out of phone the battery for one day, then try to flash kdz v30b for your country from here http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=1, but connect phone to PC without battery in. And may be is good to do it on PC with WIN XP. For me this is working better then on PC with WIN7. Good luck.

Lg P999 Won't work after flash CyanogenMod

Um sorry guys to bother you but if been trying to root my p999 for 2 years and i finally found the solution and it worked i was so happy i got so much hacks and mods everything working extraordinary until i thought of getting cyanogen mod so i download ROM manger from play story selected cyanogen mod 7 with was the only one available with Google apps and then started downloading it from the device and then it finished downloading both after half an hour then it had downloaded to the folder ROM manger downloads not in external SD car in the internal one and then i pressed install and reboot and it rebooted did everything correctly but then the phone was tuck on lg logo with cyanogen mod background if froze i took the batter out restarted more that 40 times i use to do recovery mode every time for factory reset but this time it wont work when i do it it wont never boot or go into recovery mode for me to factory rexet it guys i really need your help please i searched so much for like PC factory reset program cuz when i plug my phone to my laptop it detects it im on windows please i need to find a solution this is my only phone i have no other and i need it for work.

Well, you don't have a P990 but a P999. So your solution lies here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2x
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app