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please help me un-brick my phone

ekh... bought a nexus one off craigslist. it was already rooted. i used it for a day and then decided i didnt want to keep it, so i decided to do a hard reset. it's now stuck on the screen with the four different colors (nexus symbol) and the unlocked lock on the bottom. i've done the clear storage by holding the volume down (or trackball) and pressing power. i've tried to go through all those settings and cleared everything, but it still wont load..
any ideas? do i need to re-flash the original rom? can i flash a rom if it doesnt boot up? please help, as this is my first android phone and i've had it all of 24 hrs.. thanks
omar

Omar,
Please read the second sticky post in the forum "[ROM] Original Shipping - Tutorial" This has all the files and will tell you the steps to return your phone to the original shipping rom.
You can skip to step 5 once you download the necessary files. To get into fastboot mode on the phone do the following:
1. Power off the phone
2. Hold down the volume down key and press the power button (continuing to hold the volume down key)
3. Release both and it should boot into a white screen with the top, highlighted, option being fastboot
4. Press the power button to enter into fastboot mode. The screen should say fastboot-usb in red
Once you see fastboot usb you can begin to erase and flash the roms per the instructions.
FYI: The fact that your phone is booting to the four colored X logo means that your phone is not bricked. It is simply in some sort of boot loop. A bricked phone will show nothing on the screen and will not connect to the computer in any way shape or form.

if anyone can help me via AIM i would really appreciate it. i think i'm just about there, just need a little more info
username: omaralt

i'm trying to figure out this fastboot thing.. i got the USB thing to work, so now my computer detects the phone. i downloaded fastboot but it keeps giving me some error message that it cant find some file... any ideas from there? thanks
omar

ok.. found and downloaded the sdk, and now when i open fastboot, it just closes right away.. wtf am i doing wrong?

You are running fastboot from a command prompt right?
To open a command prompt type "cmd" into run.

Posting a thread in the right forum might get you some help. =]

Hope you have a custom recovery (most likely). Hold volume down and push the power button. Then on the white screen, press volume down once and select Recovery by pressing Power. Hopefully, you'll have Amon Ra's recovery. If so, then you will be sent into this recovery screen where you can turn on USB mode which will allow you to connect to your computer so you can download a ROM onto your SD Card. Do that.
Then you disconnect...wipe everything under the 'Wipe' settings...then Flash the new ROM. You should be good to go from there!

SiNJiN76 said:
Hope you have a custom recovery (most likely). Hold volume down and push the power button. Then on the white screen, press volume down once and select Recovery by pressing Power. Hopefully, you'll have Amon Ra's recovery. If so, then you will be sent into this recovery screen where you can turn on USB mode which will allow you to connect to your computer so you can download a ROM onto your SD Card. Do that.
Then you disconnect...wipe everything under the 'Wipe' settings...then Flash the new ROM. You should be good to go from there!
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thanks for your help. i got to the point where i turn on USB mode. i downloaded the original rom... how do i download it to my SD card? i just dragged there, is that right? and then once i wipe, how do i flash? thanks
omar

you guys are awesome.. ended up putting it into USB mode, dragging a rom i downloaded to SD card (still in .zip) and flashed it there. thanks
omar

So everything works now?
omaralt said:
you guys are awesome.. ended up putting it into USB mode, dragging a rom i downloaded to SD card (still in .zip) and flashed it there. thanks
omar
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Data-safe Disaster Recovery via NVFlash

OK so on Sunday whilst pissing about, I flashed a broken recovery to my phone. This resulted in a near brick, the phone wouldn't boot at all, and wouldn't even enter Smartflash. I didn't have a recent backup, so needless to say I was pissed.
However, this presented me with a challenge, could I recover my phone without losing anything? Turns out the answer was yes
I was able to NVFlash (battery out, hold both vol keys and plug in USB) over a good recovery, and the phone booted straight to it, from there I restored the old boot.img that I had, rebooted and held my breath.
Success! OK, so wifi didn't work due to the old kernel, but whatever, quick CM reflash fixed that (in hindsight, I could probably have just done that straight away anyway).
I created a little batch menu system to handle the command and let you pick from an internal or external recovery (depending on what you normally use) and a couple scripts for Linux users. Hopefully anyone that has bust their phone to the point of NVFlashing will be able to do this instead and keep all their stuff
http://www.mediafire.com/file/t0caspz03dk9out/o2x_nvflash_recovery_v5.rar

Downloading and keeping in my O2X stash of files. Just in case of emergency. Thank you!

Great job!
Sent from my Optimus 2X using XDA App

Nice work. Thanks Rusty!

Great job man
Congratulations...

You can flash entire partitions with the nvflash download command.. There's even a guide to flash clockwork recovery using it on the G2x forums.. I assume you'd just change the 5 to a 7 to compensate for the different partition layouts but don't quote me on it.
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Yeah you don't wanna be quoted on that, you change 5 to 14
It's the same thing, only it's never been mentioned for O2X before, clearly useful though.

@Rusty , Great Job , thanks

Seriously? It's a batch file? Double-click it and press 1,2 or X

Rusty! said:
Seriously? It's a batch file? Double-click it and press 1,2 or X
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battery out, hold both vol keys and plug in USB and start flash-recovery.bat but don't work.
I see this on cmd:
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Russ' NVFlash Recovery Flasher
1. CWM 4.0.1.5 Internal
2. CWM 4.0.1.5 External
X. Exit
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Please pick a recovery, or exit [1,2,X]?2
Attempting to flash external recovery...
Nvflash started
USB device not found
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Program will now exit
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What I've to do?

Did your PC pick up the device? APX drivers are included in the zip

Rusty! said:
Did your PC pick up the device? APX drivers are included in the zip
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If I go in "Device Management", under "Controller USB" I see "LGE Mobile Composite USB Device" correctly installed. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it with your drivers but the installation fails.
How I can install your drivers?
Many thanks..

Sounds like you're not in APX mode to me, there should be nothing showing on the phone when you plug it in, completely black screen?

Rusty! said:
Sounds like you're not in APX mode to me, there should be nothing showing on the phone when you plug it in, completely black screen?
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No, the screen shows the same screen you see when you make a flash with smartflash. In fact smartflash working properly!

Smartflash will work, because you're on the Smartflash screen. You have to hold both vol- and vol+ while plugging in the cable.

Rusty! said:
Smartflash will work, because you're on the Smartflash screen. You have to hold both vol- and vol+ while plugging in the cable.
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OK..Now I hunderstand...
All works now!
Thank you very much!

No luck here. While upgrading via the LG updater, app crashed about 95% through the process. After that, nothing else appears besides the SW updating.
Now the LG updater does not work (says phone can't be upgraded) and smart flash will not start flashing.
was trying this as a last resort, but no luck either.
installed the driver provided in the zip. started the nvflash.bat, choosed 2, a few things appeared and went by until it says:
"cwm-int.img sent successfully
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Program will now exit
Prima qualquer tecla para continuar..."
But i can´t boot to recovery (vol- plus power on), the damned "SW updating" from smartflash appears again
Any advice?
Edit1:
In fact, the "S/W updating" appears almost as soon as i choose 2
Edit2:
Ok, after this, smartFlash worked again..

You need to hold power and vol- till you see A N D R O I D appear.

Yeah, but i never had the chance. Right after the first LG appeared, while still holding vol- and Power, the S/W updating appeared.
But managed to flash the original firmware via Smartflash, after i ran the batch file you provided.
Didn't quite understood what happened here

Don't want this use this at all. (For obvious reason), still thank so much for making this.
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

[Q] LG p990 really hard brick

hello every body, im hellvis.
i know the androd scene and i've work with it.
im a happy user of the lg 2x but yesterday appned a strange fact.
i use a miui 2.7 and when i restar in recovery (i've installed cwm by rom manager)
my lg sow only the lg logo, and after 2-3 seconds the lg logo are 2 lg logo displaced one in front at other.
my lg DONT BOOT IN RECOVERY AND DONT GO ON NVFLASH MODE!
i've think the cwm is im my external mico sd card...(it's possible??)
i need a serius help. my lg is full bricked?

hellvis93 said:
hello every body, im hellvis.
i know the androd scene and i've work with it.
im a happy user of the lg 2x but yesterday appned a strange fact.
i use a miui 2.7 and when i restar in recovery (i've installed cwm by rom manager)
my lg sow only the lg logo, and after 2-3 seconds the lg logo are 2 lg logo displaced one in front at other.
my lg DONT BOOT IN RECOVERY AND DONT GO ON NVFLASH MODE!
i've think the cwm is im my external mico sd card...(it's possible??)
i need a serius help. my lg is full bricked?
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Hi!
I didn't noticed that your phone doesn't go to nvflash mode. Try to press the two volume buttons really really hard. My volume buttons got really unsensitive after 2 years. So I am also strugling with my phone to get it to nvlfahs mode.
Go to this thread.
Download AIO-TOOLKIT.
Install AIO-TOOLKIT.
Remove the battery from your phone
Connect the USB cable to your phone while you are pressing volume up & down buttons.
If you haven't installed APX drivers before, then windows will notice a new hardware and it will try to install the drivers for it, but it will fail.
Start AIO-TOOLKIT.
If you already have APX drivers installed skip this step. If you don't have the APX drivers installed, then press "I" (capital i), After that a window will apear. Just follow the instruction.
In AIO-TOOLKIT at the Main menu press number 4.
On the next screen you can decide between the new and old pt layout and bootloader. Keep in mind that whatever you choose you have to flash the correct rom for the correct bootloader+partition layout. So the new MIUI roms are only for the new bootloader and layout, old miuis like the 2.7 is for old bootloader. Here in the developement forum you can find CM10.1 roms which are made for new and old bootloaders, you just have to download the correct one to your actual bootloader. So press number 1 or number 2
Whatever you choosed at the previous step, press number 1, unless you want to do dualboot (two type of andorid on your phone). If you want dualboot then press number 2 and follow the instructions on the screen.
On the next screen you have to choose between 3 cwm version. If you selected the new bootloader I recommend to use cwm 6.0.2.5 or twrp 2.5.0.0. If you choosed oldbootloader I recommend you to use cwm 5.0.2.8 or twrp 2.5.0.0.
On the next screen, after you choosed your custom recovery, type "ok" (without the " marks) and hit enter.
Now the phone is going to be reparititonated and etc... so your phone will work again.
After the flashing ended wait about 10-15 secs then unplug the usb cable.
Reinsert your battery, then turn on your device. It should boot up into the selected custom recovery. If it does not boot up into recovery then turn off your phone and turn it on again while you are pressing and holding volume_down and power button.
Enable usb mass storage in the cwm recovery then plug the usb cable back. Format the internal SDcard to FAT32 then copy the zip file of the selected rom you want to flash (like miui or cm)
Flash your prefered rom
Restart phone.
Done

bitdomo said:
Hi!
I didn't noticed that your phone doesn't go to nvflash mode. Try to press the two volume buttons really really hard. My volume buttons got really unsensitive after 2 years. So I am also strugling with my phone to get it to nvlfahs mode.
Go to this thread.
Download AIO-TOOLKIT.
Install AIO-TOOLKIT.
Remove the battery from your phone
Connect the USB cable to your phone while you are pressing volume up & down buttons.
If you haven't installed APX drivers before, then windows will notice a new hardware and it will try to install the drivers for it, but it will fail.
Start AIO-TOOLKIT.
If you already have APX drivers installed skip this step. If you don't have the APX drivers installed, then press "I" (capital i), After that a window will apear. Just follow the instruction.
In AIO-TOOLKIT at the Main menu press number 4.
On the next screen you can decide between the new and old pt layout and bootloader. Keep in mind that whatever you choose you have to flash the correct rom for the correct bootloader+partition layout. So the new MIUI roms are only for the new bootloader and layout, old miuis like the 2.7 is for old bootloader. Here in the developement forum you can find CM10.1 roms which are made for new and old bootloaders, you just have to download the correct one to your actual bootloader. So press number 1 or number 2
Whatever you choosed at the previous step, press number 1, unless you want to do dualboot (two type of andorid on your phone). If you want dualboot then press number 2 and follow the instructions on the screen.
On the next screen you have to choose between 3 cwm version. If you selected the new bootloader I recommend to use cwm 6.0.2.5 or twrp 2.5.0.0. If you choosed oldbootloader I recommend you to use cwm 5.0.2.8 or twrp 2.5.0.0.
On the next screen, after you choosed your custom recovery, type "ok" (without the " marks) and hit enter.
Now the phone is going to be reparititonated and etc... so your phone will work again.
After the flashing ended wait about 10-15 secs then unplug the usb cable.
Reinsert your battery, then turn on your device. It should boot up into the selected custom recovery. If it does not boot up into recovery then turn off your phone and turn it on again while you are pressing and holding volume_down and power button.
Enable usb mass storage in the cwm recovery then plug the usb cable back. Format the internal SDcard to FAT32 then copy the zip file of the selected rom you want to flash (like miui or cm)
Flash your prefered rom
Restart phone.
Done
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my device dant want to go on APX mode.
when i plug on computer nothing appair *like magickcarp using splash*

quote police!

60nine said:
quote police!
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I do not understand what you mean by
"quote police!"
excuse my crappy English

Do you remove the battery?
Try to enter s/w upgrade mode by press and hold volume down key and plug the usb cable. Then use smartflash to flash rom
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda app-developers app

nope
bitdomo said:
Do you remove the battery?
Try to enter s/w upgrade mode by press and hold volume down key and plug the usb cable. Then use smartflash to flash rom
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda app-developers app
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do nothing

hellvis93 said:
do nothing
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You have no drivers installed....Check the aiot and you will have the menu to install drivers...
If not installed..your pc will not recognize your device
@bitdomo
Great tutorial once again...thanks
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium

SREEPRAJAY said:
You have no drivers installed....Check the aiot and you will have the menu to install drivers...
If not installed..your pc will not recognize your device
@bitdomo
Great tutorial once again...thanks
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium
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the driver are installed propery!! i know is as!
now my battery ar dead and i dont know how to start the phone, or how to unbrick thaht

hellvis93 said:
the driver are installed propery!! i know is as!
now my battery ar dead and i dont know how to start the phone, or how to unbrick thaht
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For the battery...use an universal battery charger my friend...
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium

I dont really know what drivers did installed succesfully, but you don't need battery to use smartflash or nvlfash. If you want to use smartflash without battery then first flash the .fls file and for the second attempt flash the .bin file.

Please help me unbrick my phone

EDIT: I accidently posted this in the wrong forum. Im have the international version, not Verizon!
I've been trying to get CM10 on my phone and somehow i messed everything up and now i can ONLY get into download mode.
Im trying to follow this guide to get back to stock:
I. Before You Begin
This will only work using a Windows machine.
This will only work on the T-Mobile US version and versions from outside the US. Do NOT use this on AT&T or Verizon versions.
II. Install the Drivers
Download the LG ADB Drivers and install them (if you don’t already have them installed from the rooting procedure you used).
III. Download the Necessary Files
Download the stock firmware for you specific device here and save it to your desktop (look for it in step 1 of the original post and make sure to choose the firmware file for your specific device version).
Download the LG Mobile Support Tool to your desktop, install it, and then close it once it opens automatically.
Download the FlashTool to your desktop (it’s the .zip file after clicking on that link).
IV. Unroot the LG G2
Turn off the G2 by holding down the power button and keeping it held down until the screen goes black, then continue to hold it for a few seconds after it goes black to make sure it shut down.
Plug the G2 into the computer via the USB cable while holding Volume Up at the same time to put it into download mode.
Right-click the FlashTool .zip file and select Extract All.
Double-click UpTestEX.exe from inside the newly extracted folder.
In the R&D Test Tool window, select the following for each option listed:
Select Type – 3GQCT
PhoneMode – DIAG
Select KDZ file – Click this and select the .kdz file we downloaded in the previous section.
Click Normal web upgrade test.
Click Upgrade Start in the new popup window that appears.
Select Republic of Korea and English for the Country and Language window that appears after that.
Click OK.
When it finished flashing and is all done, turn off the phone and then turn it back on by holding down Power and Volume Down until a screen comes up.
Select Reset (this will finish erasing everything off the device and bringing it back to stock).
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I get to step where i click upgrade start but i dont get any window where im supposed to select language.
Instead LG Mobile Support Tool starts up and nothing happens.
I dont understand what im doing wrong. Please help me. :/

Kleivis said:
EDIT: I accidently posted this in the wrong forum. Im have the international version, not Verizon!
I've been trying to get CM10 on my phone and somehow i messed everything up and now i can ONLY get into download mode.
Im trying to follow this guide to get back to stock:
I get to step where i click upgrade start but i dont get any window where im supposed to select language.
Instead LG Mobile Support Tool starts up and nothing happens.
I dont understand what im doing wrong. Please help me. :/
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Have you tried updating the united device drivers?
Sent from my VS980 4G

Do you still have a custom recovery? This happened to me, the same thing actually!
What I had to do was hold Volume Down and Power button until the LG logo shows up, then release ONLY the Power button while still holding the Volume Down button, then press the Power button again.
Or if this doesn't work,
Turn off phone, then when off, hold down power and volume down button until it reaches the LG logo and then release both buttons and hold it down again.
You will see a screen that says something like: Hard reset/ factory reset. Just follow the steps stated on screen until it boots you into recovery.
For me it took me to my recovery screen, where I just flashed a older ROM onto it. I then later flashed a recovery file.
It does take me a few times to get into that.
If that doesn't work, I don't know.
Thank you,
Stephen

hiddenfive said:
Do you still have a custom recovery? This happened to me, the same thing actually!
What I had to do was hold Volume Down and Power button until the LG logo shows up, then release ONLY the Power button while still holding the Volume Down button, then press the Power button again.
Or if this doesn't work,
Turn off phone, then when off, hold down power and volume down button until it reaches the LG logo and then release both buttons and hold it down again.
You will see a screen that says something like: Hard reset/ factory reset. Just follow the steps stated on screen until it boots you into recovery.
For me it took me to my recovery screen, where I just flashed a older ROM onto it. I then later flashed a recovery file.
It does take me a few times to get into that.
If that doesn't work, I don't know.
Thank you,
Stephen
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Praise Jesus for this...I about had a heart attack. I have been rooting and installing custom ROMs since the G1...never had any issues. Was in a boot loop and could not get back into recovery for anything.

Nothing!
I rooted then attempted to installl TWRP... the phone turned off then turned on with the android ! icon... it shut off a few mins later. Now, all I get is the buzz and a black screen. LG Mobile Support Tool nor my computer will even recognize the device. Am I truly bricked beyond repair?

HELP! I bricked my G2!

Hello, I am a NOOB, and...
I recently rooted my lg g2, vs9803aa, using the one click root, but haven't actually flashed any roms on it. I put autorec on to flash twrp, and also had titanium backup on there i was looking at to try to back it up. I restarted the phone and it is just blank screen now. I try the hard reset and it just buzzes in my hand once and no logo appears on the screen. When i plug it into the computer it generates a bunch of local drives that need formatting, and on device manager it shows as QHSUSB_BULK. I read in other threads that it matters what rom you are using for the possible fix, but i never got as far as flashing one, or recieved an OTA.
Thoughts please?! I really don't want to get a new phone, but at the very least for now I swapped the sim to an old phone, droid 4, for temporary use.
Thanks for any input.

cheetahx42 said:
Hello, I am a NOOB, and...
I recently rooted my lg g2, vs9803aa, using the one click root, but haven't actually flashed any roms on it. I put autorec on to flash twrp, and also had titanium backup on there i was looking at to try to back it up. I restarted the phone and it is just blank screen now. I try the hard reset and it just buzzes in my hand once and no logo appears on the screen. When i plug it into the computer it generates a bunch of local drives that need formatting, and on device manager it shows as QHSUSB_BULK. I read in other threads that it matters what rom you are using for the possible fix, but i never got as far as flashing one, or recieved an OTA.
Thoughts please?! I really don't want to get a new phone, but at the very least for now I swapped the sim to an old phone, droid 4, for temporary use.
Thanks for any input.
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Hi,
Have you tried download mode? If you dunno how to, here's how :
" press power button and select “power off”. Then, press the volume up button on your LG G2. While you are holding the volume up button, plug in your phone's USB cable. Keep pressing the Volume up button until the download mode is being displayed."
After you are in download mode, follow this guide to go to stock : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
This should resolve your issue.

iubjaved said:
Hi,
Have you tried download mode? If you dunno how to, here's how :
" press power button and select “power off”. Then, press the volume up button on your LG G2. While you are holding the volume up button, plug in your phone's USB cable. Keep pressing the Volume up button until the download mode is being displayed."
After you are in download mode, follow this guide to go to stock : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
This should resolve your issue.
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I get no screen prompts whatsoever, it stays black. I can hold the power button for a few seconds and there will be a single pulse of vibration, nothing else. It does the same if I hold volume down and power, as well as volume up and power. I even tried all 3 at the same time, same thing.

cheetahx42 said:
I get no screen prompts whatsoever, it stays black. I can hold the power button for a few seconds and there will be a single pulse of vibration, nothing else. It does the same if I hold volume down and power, as well as volume up and power. I even tried all 3 at the same time, same thing.
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Let me make it clear. Turn off your phone. Plug your USB on your phone and press & hold volume up button and connect the other and of the usb to your pc.

Just had the same thing happen to me. Installed recovery through autorec and then upon reboot I get a black screen and everything else mentioned above.

maceprimus said:
Just had the same thing happen to me. Installed recovery through autorec and then upon reboot I get a black screen and everything else mentioned above.
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I figured it out, as long as you don't mind wiping the device.
I used the SRK tool 2.1 to unbrick it. Link to post
After this I could get the LG splash screen again and enter download mode.
Then I used the LG Flash Tool 2014 to flash stock firmware back onto it. I actually downgraded to kitkat with the flash tool since it easier to root that way. Link to post

cheetahx42 said:
I figured it out, as long as you don't mind wiping the device.
I used the SRK tool 2.1 to unbrick it. Link to post
After this I could get the LG splash screen again and enter download mode.
Then I used the LG Flash Tool 2014 to flash stock firmware back onto it. I actually downgraded to kitkat with the flash tool since it easier to root that way. Link to post
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With the SRK tool I unzip it but the application file doesn't transfer into new file. How did you do it?

maceprimus said:
With the SRK tool I unzip it but the application file doesn't transfer into new file. How did you do it?
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It was there when i extracted the folder, maybe you need to re-download zip or get it from a different source. I dunno, mind you I am still a huge noob with about a weeks worth of experience trolling the how to/fix guides and no programming skills whatsoever.

cheetahx42 said:
It was there when i extracted the folder, maybe you need to re-download zip or get it from a different source. I dunno, mind you I am still a huge noob with about a weeks worth of experience trolling the how to/fix guides and no programming skills whatsoever.
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Got it to work. I for some reason had to use my pc in safe mode to keep it from blocking my access to the exe file.

maceprimus said:
Got it to work. I for some reason had to use my pc in safe mode to keep it from blocking my access to the exe file.
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Maybe you need to go change a setting to show hidden files. I had to do that recently. I am using windows 7, it is in folder options.