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[Q] Please help with Flashing Recovery on on Rooted VS980

I bought a VS980 last week and have been trying to flash a new recovery ever since. It is rooted, but when I try to reboot into recovery, the phone reboots and as soon as the LG splash shows up, the phone turns off. Not reboots, or freezes, or boot-loop, but just turns off. I have followed several different methods of flashing from different articles/guides i have found but all have the same effect. I have done a factory reset twice and tried to start fresh, but have the same result. I have done several options of using ADB Push to flash the recovery and I have tried to use, CWM, TWRP, Flashify, RomToolBox Pro, and GooManager apps to flash into recovery but I always have the same result. Phone reboots, LG Splash shows up for just a second, then the phone turns off.
I am about out of ideas. Please help!

usafmunk said:
I bought a VS980 last week and have been trying to flash a new recovery ever since. It is rooted, but when I try to reboot into recovery, the phone reboots and as soon as the LG splash shows up, the phone turns off. Not reboots, or freezes, or boot-loop, but just turns off. I have followed several different methods of flashing from different articles/guides i have found but all have the same effect. I have done a factory reset twice and tried to start fresh, but have the same result. I have done several options of using ADB Push to flash the recovery and I have tried to use, CWM, TWRP, Flashify, RomToolBox Pro, and GooManager apps to flash into recovery but I always have the same result. Phone reboots, LG Splash shows up for just a second, then the phone turns off.
I am about out of ideas. Please help!
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Are you running JB or KK?
JB - Download flashify from the market and let it handle flashing the recovery
KK - Follow the directions here, steps 5-8 if you're already rooted and on 24A. - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702958

mjones73 said:
Are you running JB or KK?
JB - Download flashify from the market and let it handle flashing the recovery
KK - Follow the directions here, steps 5-8 if you're already rooted and on 24A. - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702958
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Thank you so very much. The guide from the link you posted worked. You have just ended a week long battle for me and you have my thanks!

usafmunk said:
Thank you so very much. The guide from the link you posted worked. You have just ended a week long battle for me and you have my thanks!
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Well I spoke too soon. I followed the guide in from the link, which did in fact allow me to reboot into TWRP, however, the phone seems to have been bricked in the process. I unless I use the hardware keys to reboot into recovery, the phone boots up completely blank. The screen is on, but it is black. I have tried to revert back to stock but I have not been able to. I followed all the directions found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476&highlight=download+fail
Still no luck.

usafmunk said:
Well I spoke too soon. I followed the guide in from the link, which did in fact allow me to reboot into TWRP, however, the phone seems to have been bricked in the process. I unless I use the hardware keys to reboot into recovery, the phone boots up completely blank. The screen is on, but it is black. I have tried to revert back to stock but I have not been able to. I followed all the directions found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476&highlight=download+fail
Still no luck.
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Please can you describe anything that's going wrong? I.e. Can you access downloader mode?, Is your port set to COM41 (Note it does not set it automatically)?, Anything else that would give us an idea where the reverting back to stock process is going wrong?

TheOriginalKyle said:
Please can you describe anything that's going wrong? I.e. Can you access downloader mode?, Is your port set to COM41 (Note it does not set it automatically)?, Anything else that would give us an idea where the reverting back to stock process is going wrong?
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Sure. I do not know if I am able to reach Fastboot or not. I can get into TWRP Recovery and request Fastboot, as well as hold the Up-Volume buttons on start, but the screen comes on blank after the LG icon goes away.
I can not see the device from my File Explorer in Windows. I have tried to remove each of the 3 devices that appear in my Device Manager and re-install them with the most recent drivers for my phone, which seems to work, but then I still cannot connect to it. The computer recognizes that a device has connected, but I guess I do not know how to transfer files if not through File Explorer or an ADB push.
I have tried to use ADB push but I cannot see any ADB Devices. Within TWRP, I have tried to use ADB Sideload, but the message '//twrp/backups/086c8bd70b935975' not found comes up and so it gets stuck on "starting ADB Sideload feature...."
When I use the "Mount" option in TWRP, Only Data and Cache is selected. I can select System, but I am not able to select USB-OTG
When trying to use the LG Flash Tool (and tried to change every port to 41 for each device I found in Device Manager), it fails with "Model: Unknown"..."device Model is different!"..."Check Phone or DLL!"...."00000000"
I think there were some other things tried too but that is all I can think of at the moment.

usafmunk said:
Sure. I do not know if I am able to reach Fastboot or not. I can get into TWRP Recovery and request Fastboot, as well as hold the Up-Volume buttons on start, but the screen comes on blank after the LG icon goes away.
I can not see the device from my File Explorer in Windows. I have tried to remove each of the 3 devices that appear in my Device Manager and re-install them with the most recent drivers for my phone, which seems to work, but then I still cannot connect to it. The computer recognizes that a device has connected, but I guess I do not know how to transfer files if not through File Explorer or an ADB push.
I have tried to use ADB push but I cannot see any ADB Devices. Within TWRP, I have tried to use ADB Sideload, but the message '//twrp/backups/086c8bd70b935975' not found comes up and so it gets stuck on "starting ADB Sideload feature...."
When I use the "Mount" option in TWRP, Only Data and Cache is selected. I can select System, but I am not able to select USB-OTG
When trying to use the LG Flash Tool (and tried to change every port to 41 for each device I found in Device Manager), it fails with "Model: Unknown"..."device Model is different!"..."Check Phone or DLL!"...."00000000"
I think there were some other things tried too but that is all I can think of at the moment.
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Well new update: I was able to fix it! The problem was my own ignorance. I was following some Googl'd instructions to get the device into download mode that were incorrect. Once I saw the correct ones, I was able to get into Download Mode and revert to stock from there.

[Q] Not sure if hard bricked

Hey everyone - I've got an interesting one I think.
I had just gotten everything working with CM11 when I got ambitious and went to replace the logo.bin to remove the 'unlocked bootloader' warning that shows up every boot. I realized too late that the logo.bin I used was for a Moto G. Now you'd think that this would just affect the boot logo and I'd be able to try again with the right logo.bin... nope.
On boot all I see is colorful snow. I hear the startup sounds, and I can access the files on my computer when connected via USB. After the screen goes to sleep it shows a flashing white light. Same response with each different startup button combo.
Any ideas? I've tried using adb and fastboot manually, as well as Myth Tools. 'fastboot devices' shows up blank, and adb finds no devices either. I've installed RSDLite but can't find a file to use (lots of broken download links), and I'm not sure that would even solve my problem.
Thanks for any help!

The phone woke me up with it's alarm this morning. That was unexpected. It's also ringing when I call it - CM is running, just the screen is messed up.
How can I get into fastboot in this state? I've never had much success getting the key combos to work on this phone. Adb reboot commands were my most reliable way, but adb isn't detecting a device. If I installed CM11 and have not installed google apps yet, should adb be working?

dta5003 said:
The phone woke me up with it's alarm this morning. That was unexpected. It's also ringing when I call it - CM is running, just the screen is messed up.
How can I get into fastboot in this state? I've never had much success getting the key combos to work on this phone. Adb reboot commands were my most reliable way, but adb isn't detecting a device. If I installed CM11 and have not installed google apps yet, should adb be working?
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Nope. Not until adb is enabled by going into the developer options or tweaking the build.prop before install.
Just hold down all three buttons when you are booting up and you'll access the boot menu, from there you can select recovery or fastboot or whatever (for me it's easier than using the other key combos as I too have a hard time with them).

skeevydude said:
Just hold down all three buttons when you are booting up and you'll access the boot menu
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Maybe it's the way you described it, but I was actually able to get into the boot menu this time! I've fixed the logo, and the phone boots normally now.
For anyone else with similar issues, getting the boot menu requires doing a simulated battery pull (vol down + power) followed by booting with all 3 buttons pressed. I think my error was attempting to hold all 3 buttons when the phone was still on and expecting to get the boot menu.
Hooray, my wife has a phone again! And I won't have to worry about touching it ever again because I won't be allowed to. :victory:
Thanks!

Hi, I am having some problem with my Atrix HD. I was doing some rom update and after reboot all I can see is colored snow (not sure whats the technical name for this, as it will help to search better) and goes to nowhere from there. I tried rebooting few times, but nothing except the snow. Its summer now, so How can get rid of this snow and see my normal phone ?

manugoenka said:
Hi, I am having some problem with my Atrix HD. I was doing some rom update and after reboot all I can see is colored snow (not sure whats the technical name for this, as it will help to search better) and goes to nowhere from there. I tried rebooting few times, but nothing except the snow. Its summer now, so How can get rid of this snow and see my normal phone ?
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What exactly were you doing? Taking the new AT&T OTA or was it something on the custom side?
I know that flashing the wrong sized bootlogo can do this. I actually flashed a bad one I made the other day that turns my screen red and the actual image is all jacked up. The Moto G logo I flashed left it snowing just like you're experiencing. I've also had random bad flashes do this too.
All you can do is fastboot/myth/rsd back to stock and start over. Hopefully you have backups.

Thank you, I managed to fix my phone, it was something related to battery. I simple pressed all three buttons and connected to charger to get to fastboot menu, which also rebooted few times as phone did not had enough battery to run fastboot. Repeated the process few time to get it working. Thanks

Possible brick after build.prop edit. Verizon LG G2

Hello,
I've been rooted for a few months now and have never had any problems. I wanted to use that Milk Music app from Samsung so I followed the instructions and was able to get it working on my phone and have been for awhile. I recently decided it would be a good idea to change the build.prop file back to its original state, so I copied and pasted it in using Root Browser. (I had made a backup file stored elsewhere). Once I did that I rebooted my phone for the changes to take effect. After I did that I cannot get my phone to turn back on. It displays the LG animated logo screen and then goes completely black. The light on top of the phone radiates blue/green. I've read through several forums about this issue and have tried everything in order to get it to work and for some reason, using my computer and ADB always gives me an error: device not found. I have installed the drivers and everything. Anyone else run in to this problem before? I would really appreciate it.

If you are on stock rom, just rooted. I would think you should be able to factory reset through stock recovery.
Confirm the process but i think you power completely off. Then hold volume down and power at the same time when you see the lg logo release both buttons then press both buttons and hold them.
Should take you to factory reset.
Not 100% certain but this will probably be your next step if you can't get a computer to see it.
Good luck

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The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.

brody_low said:
The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.
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If you can get into dl mode then you should be able to return it to stock which should reset everything. Returning to stock has its own downside but at least you'll be up and running again.

black screen ???

lg g2 vsw980
when i trun on my phone its coming black no logo nothing work
but
if i put it in pc its coming to me many drives
how i fix it ?
i cant see anything its fully black and cant do anythings
how its coming to me like this ?
i install custom recovery and i told twrp goto recovery mode its coming to me like this
please help me to fix it

any idea to fix it ?

What happens if you long press the power button?

if i click on the power its only light and black screen then i dont know be off or on becouse there is no logo

I'm having the same issue. I rooted my phone over a year ago and have been changing ROMs on it. The last one I installed was Cloudy and after a few weeks I noticed my 4g stopped working. Thought it was a SIM card, but it was replaced and Verizon said it's because I'm rooted. I was running some fast boot commands and after one of the(not sure which one) my phone only boots to a black screen. If you hold the power button down you can feel it vibrate like it's turning on but it doesn't, can't boot in to any mode. Once it connects to the pc it maps like 6 drives and it's asking me to Format. Under one drive it has an Image folder with some random files. If you go to device manager it show as qhsusb_bulk. I'm pretty sure I'm screwed. I tried running fastboot via command line, but every command says <waiting for device>. In the meantime I had to switch to my old Thunderbolt.

did you fix it and how to fix it please help me

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142

smr1619 said:
I'm having the same issue. I rooted my phone over a year ago and have been changing ROMs on it. The last one I installed was Cloudy and after a few weeks I noticed my 4g stopped working. Thought it was a SIM card, but it was replaced and Verizon said it's because I'm rooted. I was running some fast boot commands and after one of the(not sure which one) my phone only boots to a black screen. If you hold the power button down you can feel it vibrate like it's turning on but it doesn't, can't boot in to any mode. Once it connects to the pc it maps like 6 drives and it's asking me to Format. Under one drive it has an Image folder with some random files. If you go to device manager it show as qhsusb_bulk. I'm pretty sure I'm screwed. I tried running fastboot via command line, but every command says <waiting for device>. In the meantime I had to switch to my old Thunderbolt.
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I'm in the same situation. My screen is black. pressing buttons the phone would vibrate and red led shows but can't get into download nor fastboot mode anymore.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/unbrick-lg-g2-qhsusbbulkqualcomm-9006-t2939627

smr1619 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/unbrick-lg-g2-qhsusbbulkqualcomm-9006-t2939627
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Thanks for the link but I don't have linux pc

i followed these steps on my phone on a Windows pc. After I got my phone to come up I had to use the lg flash tool and then it updated my phone to the latest andriod OS

any other way to fix my problem ???
please iam doing everything but it not work for me
right now iam install new ubuntu to fix my problem

Bootlooped after installing xPosed ontop of CM12.1 Beta

So since I didn't read anything of xposed being "BAD" for the new CM beta, i figured i'd give it a shot.
The current gist is this:
Powers on, can't get into TWRP, if I get into the Download Mode and go to "Send_Command.exe \\.\COM4" and do "#id" it just comes back with "#" or it may take a long time, then it'll just come back with "#". Fastboot devices, shows nothing. ADB Devices same thing. I'd love to do a HardReset, or anything that could be done, but the only button config that works is Pressing Up when plugging the phone in.
Any ideas?
Yes I've seen others are having bootloops, noone seems to be having them due to what I've done (xposed + CM).
UPDATE: Problem solved. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63674157&postcount=3

Got a bit further thanks (i'll probably regret that word) to the LG Flash Tool.
Followed the instructions, flashed the KDZ, then I guess the flash tool error'd out because the Download Mode still showed 0% but the tool had a **** ton of ????? ??????
Needless to say, TWRP is booting up now!....but "unable to mount '/system'.
Attempted the H81110N Bootstack and Image, but that didn't work. due to the /system.

Retrying again with the LGTool, this time choosing English -_-
Looks like im at 52%, that error message i received i guess should have ben ignored.
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Edit: wasn't looking good with LGTool crashing. but I've successfully gotten the phone back to stock it looks like. Just going through some reboots. I did get a glimpse of the LG setup screen