Phone is sh*t - Sprint LG G4

Okay, so my phone has always had weird problems. But just today, my phone started running slow out of nowhere and then froze on Instagram so I took the battery out. I then put the battery back in, and I wasn't watching the phone and every time I picked the phone back up, the screen was black and would't show anything. So, I thought it was just like when that happens and all I do is reinsert the battery and it works again, but it wasn't. I did it again while watching the screen, and when i watched it, it would boot up with the LG logo, then turn black. Then reset itself, LG logo, then black and stay black. So then I put it on the charger and restarted it thinking the battery was dead. Same thing happened. I then used my computer to reflash the img file, no difference. I then waited like 3 minutes and tried to restart it, then it got to the sprint part for like 20 secs, then turned black. I write music and have a lot of lyrics in my phone and a lot of images I don't want to lose. I'm tempted to do the TOT restore to see if it fixes anything but this problem is ridiculous. Any help?

iiEatTurdz said:
Okay, so my phone has always had weird problems. But just today, my phone started running slow out of nowhere and then froze on Instagram so I took the battery out. I then put the battery back in, and I wasn't watching the phone and every time I picked the phone back up, the screen was black and would't show anything. So, I thought it was just like when that happens and all I do is reinsert the battery and it works again, but it wasn't. I did it again while watching the screen, and when i watched it, it would boot up with the LG logo, then turn black. Then reset itself, LG logo, then black and stay black. So then I put it on the charger and restarted it thinking the battery was dead. Same thing happened. I then used my computer to reflash the img file, no difference. I then waited like 3 minutes and tried to restart it, then it got to the sprint part for like 20 secs, then turned black. I write music and have a lot of lyrics in my phone and a lot of images I don't want to lose. I'm tempted to do the TOT restore to see if it fixes anything but this problem is ridiculous. Any help?
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If you do the TOT restore use LGUP because lgflashtool will probably wipe your stuff.

I would not waste time with a restore. He needs a new phone. sprint will replace it.
recommend going to a corporate store.

You are so negative. Why not just try it once?

Something is wrong with your phone. This is an AMAZING phone.. either do a TOT restore or call it into sprint and get it resolved.

PureLife90 said:
Something is wrong with your phone. This is an AMAZING phone.. either do a TOT restore or call it into sprint and get it resolved.
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yeah i did the tot and still didnt work. it's hardware

Awesomeslayerg said:
If you do the TOT restore use LGUP because lgflashtool will probably wipe your stuff.
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tried. still not working. thanks though

I had this issue with 2 G4s. It is a hardware/sprint software issue. They will replace phone for free.

Awesomeslayerg said:
You are so negative. Why not just try it once?
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It's a classic problem with the hardware. And even if it did revive it, it will crap out again in a week or a month.
He described the issue to a "T".

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[Q] Possible nuked phone?

So my Galaxy S seems to have **** the bed 7 days to the minute.
Working all fine today, restarted the phone as it seemed a little slower than usual.
Upon restart doesn't go any further than the animated splash screen, problem is my phone is one that doesn't have the 3 button combo. Awesome.
Only things I have done to it is the one click root and one click lag fix, no other flashing.
I've tried taking the battery out for about 10 minutes, starting with no sim, with sim, with charger, withough charger all to the same effect.
Am I SOL and have to send this back or are there any other tricks to try?
I think I'll be sticking with vanilla if I can get it replaced.
E: I should say, after about 10 minutes from sitting at the samsung splash screen, the screen turns off and the two touch sensative buttons light up and don't turn off.
Do you have an external memory card installed? If so remove that and try again.
Hey.
Sorry for your phone dying. I am able to get my phone into recovery and download mode by letting it charge up. The goal is to make it warm to touch. This is the only way I can get it going. I've also used a hairdryer with success. Might as well try everything right?
you can still take it back to the store and claim warranty on it
Tehpriest said:
Do you have an external memory card installed? If so remove that and try again.
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No memory card installed
MomijiTMO said:
Hey.
Sorry for your phone dying. I am able to get my phone into recovery and download mode by letting it charge up. The goal is to make it warm to touch. This is the only way I can get it going. I've also used a hairdryer with success. Might as well try everything right?
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Will give this a go tonight.
AllGamer said:
you can still take it back to the store and claim warranty on it
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Yeah I called my carrier last night. It's only 7 days old, as I upgraded online they are sending out a satchel for me to send it back in.
Back to the old iPhone 3G for the time being. Such a step back.

everything is Force Closing since yesterday

hey guys, I don't know what's going on with my S7 but yesterday was working fine and out of nowhere everything started to FC! From twitter to "Google Services Framwork", Gmail, browser, tweetdeck, calendar, voice, I can't pretty much use it anymore, I haven't done any new app installations so i don't know what's wrong! is it just me, or anyone else having this problem??
Any help will be much appreciated!
Thanks
That has happened to me 4 or 5 times. It's like half of the device gets erased but the apps are there. Everything force closes. I end up having to erase the device and re-install everything. Reboot into recovery if you can't figure it out and format the system and data. For some reason when i do that, i keep root. Not entirely sure how that happens, but one less step for me. I think root is power and one of the volume buttons.
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That has happened to me 4 or 5 times. It's like half of the device gets erased but the apps are there. Everything force closes. I end up having to erase the device and re-install everything. Reboot into recovery if you can't figure it out and format the system and data. For some reason when i do that, i keep root. Not entirely sure how that happens, but one less step for me. I think root is power and one of the volume buttons.
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ha! i remember I already did that. After the Update we had, and I exchanged mine for a new one I decided to stay with no root (i don't know why! lol) so I guess I'll reset everything and go back to root I figured at the end I was gonna do that, but I was trying to see if it was just me or there was a fix
thanks man!
ok, so since yesterday I've been trying to factory reset the DS, and when it boots back on, everything stays the same!
I'm a little confused now, if I take a picture and I turn the tablet off, when I turn it back on, the picture disappears. Same thing happens if I move widgets, delete or create new ones on the screen, they go back to as the configuration was on friday night! GV not working, and the last message that shows there, same thing, shows the last one on friday. I don't know what can I do.... should I call dell??
duck tape and dynomite
stupid thing started crashing yesterday FC this and FC that ....cant restore it as i no longer have write access to the internal sd card
1) tried nv flash
2) tried restoring from clockwork
3) tried pushing files through adb
4) tried fastboot ....
if i didnt just dump money into this thing id blow it up ......
any help would be appreciated.......any tips to fix it or kill it completely so i can get another one
actually deleted all of the files on internal sd card and uninstalled every program on the device looked completly stock ....rebooted it and it went back to how it was yesterday ......theres gotta be a reason why other are having the same problem that started on the same day .....maybe dell pushed an OTA update and screwed us ......just a thought cause mine was fine till i went 4g yesterday so my sis could post facebook pics ....not sure but hope we can figure this out
Samething happened to me
Hi, did you ever find a solution? my streak 7 was ran out of battery, before it shut off, the screen started flickering and then it turned off. after it came back on, it looked like it was fine, everything looked normal, but then everything started force closing, haven't found a solution
jz83 said:
Hi, did you ever find a solution? my streak 7 was ran out of battery, before it shut off, the screen started flickering and then it turned off. after it came back on, it looked like it was fine, everything looked normal, but then everything started force closing, haven't found a solution
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I'm running stock, and I discovered the hard way that you can't let the S7 battery run all the way down. The S7 will not power itself down in time. I had the same issue, and the only way around it was to do a complete factory reset, using the menu button from the main screen. I think the reset is in the "About" section, but I don't have my S7 with me now.
Being used to WM6, which powers the device down at 5%, I was not expecting the device to do this, but there it is.
dell streak 7
im not sure if I am the only one with this issue you but becareful with the streak 7 mine well both of mine wont charge properly and the newest one wont charge at all. i have to send it back to dell for them to fix it. Im not sure what cause this but my only advie is to never use a different charger for it only dell chargers. Im guessing that it messes up the battery callibration and then it gets really hot when charging

Random reboot this morning

My phone randomly rebooted around 4 am this morning (mountain time) The only way I noticed it was I was looking at battery stats and there was a white gap or is there some other explanation for that? I have not seen this before... stock no root no unlocked bootloader.... kind of weird no?
how are we supposed to know why your phone rebooted? you provided no info besides that it rebooted around 4am. no logs, nothing. my guess is that a spaceman came and made your phone reboot, just to watch the google logo as its booting up :silly:
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how are we supposed to know why your phone rebooted? you provided no info besides that it rebooted around 4am. no logs, nothing. my guess is that a spaceman came and made your phone reboot, just to watch the google logo as its booting up :silly:
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No, definitely not a spaceman... Not in mountain time
If I knew how to provide logs I would have, guess I'll check with the spacemen and see if they have them. Thanks for the help, you can close the thread......
My phone used to reboot 2-3 per day. I removed the Amazon app and it hasn't rebooted since. If you have that app installed, uninstall it.
My phone had random reboots before, but it went away.
Today i had a freeze again, before a reboot happens i cant wake my phone up . So i tired the power button like 10 times. It came back on, stayed on lock screen for 2 second and everything went black. Had to turn it back on.
Its like a deep sleep of death. I don't get notifications or anything when this happens, but my Moto 360 somehow stay connected but cant do any voice search.
This i how i usually discover the problem. When i want to do some OK Goggle with my watch and it does nothing... Checking my phone and its always dead.

[Q] Boot Loop while charging - no charge

Hello, I've had my G Watch R for not quite a full week so far and I've really enjoyed it. Two days ago, I believe that I let the battery die so I placed it on the charger before going to bed. When I woke in the morning i grabbed the watch off the charger without looking at it. Just before i stepped out the door i noticed that it wasn't waking up and It wouldn't even power on. I ran back and slapped it on the charger thinking that it would be more than charged by lunch time. Thats when i noticed the apparent boot issue you can see in the video attached. It hasn't been dropped at all and I have the basic apps installed; facer, watchmaker etc. At this point, Is there anything that I can try short of sending it back?
I've left it on the charger for 24+ hours, it gets slightly warm and stays in the boot loop. As soon as its taken off the charger it has no visible charge and refuses to respond to anything. I purchased it through amazon, so I'm thinking it shouldn't be an issue for me to return it...
http://youtu.be/GgF3iXAhTTI/
Sorry i tried to embed the video but the youtube link for xda seems to be breaking the url somehow
So I have already initiated the return process with amazon and it should be pretty painless. I have almost 3 weeks to send it back, so if anyone has any tips/tricks or ideas I'm more than open to try them....The watch is 100% stock as far as firmware or root is concerned.
Any luck with this? I just got back an RMA for a broken touch sensor, I don't want to have to RMA it again.
try to see if you can get in to the bootloader, and restart the watch from there
i have notice when i charge the watch from empty (so thewatch boots up while charging) it causes problems, usually boot loops as well
I just watched the video (should've done this before hijacking the thread, sorry) and it seems like I'm having a different issue. Instead, mine does the android boot animation, the goes to "Starting Apps" and counting ("x of y Apps"; the y value seems to be different every time), then "Staring Apps" with no count, then it says "Powering Off" and shuts off. But I will post my experience in case someone else with my issue finds this thread.
I'm back up & running today. I got it into the bootloader last night and put it on the charger before I went to sleep (to avoid battery rundown by bootlooping while it charges). I woke up this morning to it bootlooping again. I'm guessing that it restarted itself sometime during the night. I took it off the charger and let it sit for a while (it was pretty warm, so I figured it would be better to let it cool down before trying anything else). I tried to restart it again after about a half hour, but it still only got to "Starting Apps" before shutting off. I reflashed the stock boot, recovery & system images found here: Stock Boot, Recovery and System for G Watch R . I restarted it and completed the initial pairing process (due to wipe when I unlocked it in order to flash system image) and it is now working.
I don't know if what I did actually fixed anything or if it just decided to start working, but I will post again if something happens again. If you don't see any more replies from me, then all is still OK.
EDIT 6/22/15 9:53 pm EDT: No good, see below.
To workaround the bootloop while charging, you can boot into recovery (swipe 10 to 4 a clock while Logo is shown, select and press okay to recovery), than charge battery for a while, after that, you can boot to as normally to AW-system and charge to fully battery!
You can charge with USB on PC, it's work fine for me.
scidon37 said:
I just watched the video
I don't know if what I did actually fixed anything or if it just decided to start working, but I will post again if something happens again. If you don't see any more replies from me, then all is still OK.
EDIT 6/22/15 9:53 pm EDT: No good, see below.
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So your gwatch r started doing the same thing again? I have the same problem and it won't connect to the computer via fastboot or adb. How did you get on with the RMA? I cant send mine back due to voided warranty. Still hoping for a solution.
Have you tried taking it off the charger and booting it? Also are you running custom software?
bricked watch
atmosphrericks said:
So your gwatch r started doing the same thing again? I have the same problem and it won't connect to the computer via fastboot or adb. How did you get on with the RMA? I cant send mine back due to voided warranty. Still hoping for a solution.
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Ever find a fix for this? I've been searching like mad the last few weeks. :/
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Ever find a fix for this? I've been searching like mad the last few weeks. :/
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So i took off the back plate, and found that the spring contact pins inside the watch weren't making good connections to the connect points on the inside of the back plate. Be careful, they are fragile, but you want to bend them out slightly. If you can source parts, get a new contact pin module.
After this, i was able to connect my watch and flash over stock firmware.
I can't guarantee this is what is happening with yours, but let us know if it does work.
I've scince broken the screen and can't find where to get parts!
atmosphrericks said:
So i took off the back plate, and found that the spring contact pins inside the watch weren't making good connections to the connect points on the inside of the back plate. Be careful, they are fragile, but you want to bend them out slightly. If you can source parts, get a new contact pin module.
After this, i was able to connect my watch and flash over stock firmware.
I can't guarantee this is what is happening with yours, but let us know if it does work.
I've scince broken the screen and can't find where to get parts!
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I still haven't found a fix. My charging works fine, but no PC connection. The bootloader/fastboot wont come up, no logo or anything. I'm sure the EMMC chip is fried, it sounds like many are seeing this issue, some with a black screen and some with a snowy screen. I've had several galaxy phones do the exact same so I'm doubting it can be fixed without going to the manufacturer which mine came from redflagdeals and LG wont service the random online store purchases
I had to take the back off and clean and adjust the contacts that make contact through the back panel. Then I could connect via fastboot.
ouranos2k said:
You can charge with USB on PC, it's work fine for me.
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This solved my problem. As soon as I plugged it into my PC it booted just fine
ouranos2k said:
You can charge with USB on PC, it's work fine for me.
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This works for me too! Thank you!
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Bricked phone?

Hi there!
I was wondering if anyone around here had some ideas on what to do.
My LG G4 had been working fine until today. I unlocked the screen to check my e-mail and it completely froze. It was plugged in at the time, so I unplugged it to see if I could restart it. The charging light was still blinking, the power button didn't respond, absolutely nothing.
I took the battery out, left it for a minute or so and rebooted. It loaded, unlocked, but I could only get to the app menu before it completely froze again. Afterwards, screen went black.
On the third try, it booted up to the LG logo and that's it. It popped up about 3 times and screen went black. No other response whatsoever. I can only try to reboot again only after taking out the battery, but it does the same thing.
I switched the battery with another one of the same model, nothing changed. Computer doesn't recognize it either.
I've looked around for a bit and I can't find anything like my case. The closest thing described is the boot loop. I'm not exactly sure that's my case, but it seems similar to a certain degree.
I got it to boot to recovery mode, but it doesn't do anything. It asks me if I'm sure I want to run it, and in the second 'yes' it freezes up completely again. Screen goes black and does absolutely nothing else.
Added note, phone upgraded to 6.0 yesterday morning. I had no issues with it until now. No app updates were running at freezing time.
I'm considering taking it to the store before I try anything myself, just in case there is still some warranty active.... But any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
sinajei said:
Hi there!
I was wondering if anyone around here had some ideas on what to do.
My LG G4 had been working fine until today. I unlocked the screen to check my e-mail and it completely froze. It was plugged in at the time, so I unplugged it to see if I could restart it. The charging light was still blinking, the power button didn't respond, absolutely nothing.
I took the battery out, left it for a minute or so and rebooted. It loaded, unlocked, but I could only get to the app menu before it completely froze again. Afterwards, screen went black.
On the third try, it booted up to the LG logo and that's it. It popped up about 3 times and screen went black. No other response whatsoever. I can only try to reboot again only after taking out the battery, but it does the same thing.
I switched the battery with another one of the same model, nothing changed. Computer doesn't recognize it either.
I've looked around for a bit and I can't find anything like my case. The closest thing described is the boot loop. I'm not exactly sure that's my case, but it seems similar to a certain degree.
I got it to boot to recovery mode, but it doesn't do anything. It asks me if I'm sure I want to run it, and in the second 'yes' it freezes up completely again. Screen goes black and does absolutely nothing else.
Added note, phone upgraded to 6.0 yesterday morning. I had no issues with it until now. No app updates were running at freezing time.
I'm considering taking it to the store before I try anything myself, just in case there is still some warranty active.... But any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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seems like infamous bootloop... harware issue. send it to tmobile or LG.
raptorddd said:
seems like infamous bootloop... harware issue. send it to tmobile or LG.
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I was afraid so... Went directly to the T-Mobile store where I bought it and, since the warranty was still active, they exchanged it on the spot.
I just hope this one lasts longer than the other one did...
Thanks!
sinajei said:
I was afraid so... Went directly to the T-Mobile store where I bought it and, since the warranty was still active, they exchanged it on the spot.
I just hope this one lasts longer than the other one did...
Thanks!
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yeah.. did you know manufacture date on the one affected by bootloop or first 3 serial number.?
raptorddd said:
yeah.. did you know manufacture date on the one affected by bootloop or first 3 serial number.?
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Yup. Actually still have the box.... the date was 05/2015.
New one's date is 03/2016.
sinajei said:
Yup. Actually still have the box.... the date was 05/2015.
New one's date is 03/2016.
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it was a 505.. most will bootloop... new one is. 603. theres hw 1,0 and 1.1.. this you look at software info ... in hidden menu.. in dialer..
raptorddd said:
it was a 505.. most will bootloop... new one is. 603. theres hw 1,0 and 1.1.. this you look at software info ... in hidden menu.. in dialer..
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This one (603) is a HW Version 1.0 ...
sinajei said:
This one (603) is a HW Version 1.0 ...
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mines its 601 and same HW 1.0 if they knew they revised 1.0 to 1.1 why not use the 1.1 if they knew this back in october 2015.. theres older phone from 2015 with HW 1.1
raptorddd said:
mines its 601 and same HW 1.0 if they knew they revised 1.0 to 1.1 why not use the 1.1 if they knew this back in october 2015.. theres older phone from 2015 with HW 1.1
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That is an excellent question...
Btw, does your screen freeze up sometimes? 'Cause mine sometimes goes unresponsive right after I unlock it... I just lock and unlock it again and keeps working just fine, but it's kind of annoying... old one did it and it, now this one does it sometimes too...
sinajei said:
That is an excellent question...
Btw, does your screen freeze up sometimes? 'Cause mine sometimes goes unresponsive right after I unlock it... I just lock and unlock it again and keeps working just fine, but it's kind of annoying... old one did it and it, now this one does it sometimes too...
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yes it does.. but very rare... not to often... but mines does using phone and it freezes then turn off screen and when back it all works... i used power button.. not sure why but it does..but liek i said not to often. its once in a while..
raptorddd said:
yes it does.. but very rare... not to often... but mines does using phone and it freezes then turn off screen and when back it all works... i used power button.. not sure why but it does..but liek i said not to often. its once in a while..
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Good to know it's not just me then. Guess it's a common screen glitch then.
Thank you for the info!
Well another 505 g4 bites the dust. Playing a game, backed out of it, phone froze, pulled battery, turned on to endless bootloop, pulled battery again, now nothing and I mean nothing, no boot loop, no nothing
Definitely a brick. Computer doesn't recognize or even try to charge it. Hopefully still under warranty.
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