Bootloop, can get to "firmware update screen", fastboot commands not working - T-Mobile LG G4

Bootloop, can get to "firmware update screen", fastboot commands not working
Out of nowhere my phone rebooted and started bootlooping. Eventually it came on but within minutes it did it again. After about an hour of pulling the battery abd trying to boot it, it finally came on. I went to use some app (I cant remember the title) to boot into twrp but it froze and started to bootloop again. I had never granted SU permissions to the app and it hadnt come up. Now that i have my computer I was able to boot into download mode (Firmware update screen) but my fastboot boot twrp.img command is stuck on waiting for device. Im guessing a malicious app caused the bootloop as i granted some app SU permissions only to later realize that it never needed it. All it did was download apk files for pentesting and diagnosis apps. It may be one of those apps however. I was on a custom ROM with an unlocked bootloader and twrp (although i cant seem to boot to it). LG Bridge couldnt find the device. Any help would be appreciated as this is my only device and I'm waiting for a call back for a speeding ticket and don't want to be screwed over :crying:

Since you have twrp and unlocked bootloader you should be able to access twrp still. This happened to me but from wiping internal storage by accident. Make sure you have your custom rom of choice on your sd card or the one you were running. Power off your G4 completely and while its off enter recovery mode manually. You may need to do this a few times for your G4 to enter recovery but it will boot to twrp. I believe its hold power button and volume down button then release for a sec both buttons when you see the lg logo then continue to hold them again. Do the factory reset option and after that it will boot to twrp and flash your rom again. Hope this works.
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srod562 said:
Since you have twrp and unlocked bootloader you should be able to access twrp still. This happened to me but from wiping internal storage by accident. Make sure you have your custom rom of choice on your sd card or the one you were running. Power off your G4 completely and while its off enter recovery mode manually. You may need to do this a few times for your G4 to enter recovery but it will boot to twrp. I believe its hold power button and volume down button then release for a sec both buttons when you see the lg logo then continue to hold them again. Do the factory reset option and after that it will boot to twrp and flash your rom again. Hope this works.
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I tried that and it doesnt take me to twrp or the factory reset screen

Did you try it a few times? I had to do it like 5 times before I got the factory reset option. Maybe you have the dreaded hardware failure bootloop.
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Happened to me. Every time I would use the hardware keys to get into TWRP it would go back to the bootloop. Most likely is hardware issue like he said ^^ I contacted LG and they told me to send it. It's on its way back to me
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My phone started bootlooping on Saturday so i called T-mobile and i just received my replacement phone today. Now im afraid that they're going to find out that my phone was rooted because when u turn the phone on it says bootloader unlocked and if they even get into recovery mode it will have twrp installed
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Phone suddenly acting up need some help

I rooted my droid 4 a few months ago when I first got it so I could tether. I removed a couple of programs using titanium backup (blockbuster app and some other bloat). Phone worked fine until monday when the touchscreen stopped working. I did a reboot (power + volume down) whereupon it just sat at the M "Dual Core" logo. I tried booting into the recovery menu but selecting "recovery" didn't do anything - it would just hang.
Last night I was able to get it working again by going into the recovery menu and selecting asp fastboot, then using RSDLite to push a stock Droid 4 ROM onto the phone. However, it didn't wipe my old system, and didnt install over it either because all my files were there, and the programs I removed were still gone. So the phone worked for a few hours then the touchscreen stopped working again.
I repeated the process with RSDLite and after a few failed attempts where the phone would hang while booting, I finally got it to boot into the OS again. And this is where I am at now.
I am pretty sure that the problem is related to the OS that is on the phone now and that I need to wipe the phone and start fresh with either a custom ROM or the stock D4 ROM. The problem is that I can't get recovery to do a factory reset. As I mentioned above, recovery just hangs and doesn't do anything. I am reasonably literate when it comes to this stuff but I get really confused because there are so many different ways that people seem to do this stuff (safestrap, bootstrap, CM( etc). I would love to try CM9 but my priority right now is just to have a phone that works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
whoisthisis said:
I rooted my droid 4 a few months ago when I first got it so I could tether. I removed a couple of programs using titanium backup (blockbuster app and some other bloat). Phone worked fine until monday when the touchscreen stopped working. I did a reboot (power + volume down) whereupon it just sat at the M "Dual Core" logo. I tried booting into the recovery menu but selecting "recovery" didn't do anything - it would just hang.
Last night I was able to get it working again by going into the recovery menu and selecting asp fastboot, then using RSDLite to push a stock Droid 4 ROM onto the phone. However, it didn't wipe my old system, and didnt install over it either because all my files were there, and the programs I removed were still gone. So the phone worked for a few hours then the touchscreen stopped working again.
I repeated the process with RSDLite and after a few failed attempts where the phone would hang while booting, I finally got it to boot into the OS again. And this is where I am at now.
I am pretty sure that the problem is related to the OS that is on the phone now and that I need to wipe the phone and start fresh with either a custom ROM or the stock D4 ROM. The problem is that I can't get recovery to do a factory reset. As I mentioned above, recovery just hangs and doesn't do anything. I am reasonably literate when it comes to this stuff but I get really confused because there are so many different ways that people seem to do this stuff (safestrap, bootstrap, CM( etc). I would love to try CM9 but my priority right now is just to have a phone that works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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select recovery by holding the vol buttons and power on boot just like fastboot. press vol - for recovery. when u see dead droid hit both vol up and vol down and theres the recovery
Thanks, I was finally able to get into recovery. Wiped data and did a factory reset which again got stuck at the logo screen. Went back into fastboot and ran RSDlite again to flash the stock ROM which gets me to the "Welcome to Droid4" screen where it says "touch the android to start" but the touchscreen is unresponsive. Starting to think there is something physically wrong with the phone....
send it to motorola, I've heard their customer support is pretty good. but if you voided your warranty by rooting/flashing other roms, I've heard bricking the phone and sending it in works to get a new one too
The only way I can send it back is through an insurance claim so I am trying to save myself $75j if this thing will just work. I just did a reboot and now the touchscreen seems to be working so I am going through the setup process....so weird.
Update: I was able to get the phone to load up and configured my google account etc. It appears that the phone is now running on completely stock installation of OS.....
whoisthisis said:
The only way I can send it back is through an insurance claim so I am trying to save myself $75j if this thing will just work. I just did a reboot and now the touchscreen seems to be working so I am going through the setup process....so weird.
Update: I was able to get the phone to load up and configured my google account etc. It appears that the phone is now running on completely stock installation of OS.....
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So it has been a couple days now and the phone works totally fine. It looks like the problem was that by removing whatever bloatware that I did, the phone's OS got borked when VZW pushed an update of some kind. Flashing the stock ROM without doing a factory wipe would temporarily solve the problem but eventually the update would get pushed again and the whole thing would lock up again. The factory wipe + reinstall seems to have been the solution to the problem.

[Q] Help! Bricked my phone during Flash!

Hey guys,
So I've been at this all day on another forum. Here is the link to ONE of the threads : (Edit removed, cant post links yet)
So I was trying to Flash to Android Revolution HD and it got stuck at 30% half way through the installation. This lasted a good 5 hours...
I finally managed to reboot the phone using "adb reboot bootloader"
But now I'm stuck on "HTC Quietly Brilliant" splash screen!
I JUST bought this phone last night off kijjiji and I'm reallly ****ting bricks now (no pun intended)
Any help whatsoever will be really appreciated
Added a screen shot of what it was stuck at a few minutes ago. I JUST managed to reboot it..but it's still stuck.
PoRco1x said:
Hey guys,
So I've been at this all day on another forum. Here is the link to ONE of the threads : (Edit removed, cant post links yet)
So I was trying to Flash to Android Revolution HD and it got stuck at 30% half way through the installation. This lasted a good 5 hours...
I finally managed to reboot the phone using "adb reboot bootloader"
But now I'm stuck on "HTC Quietly Brilliant" splash screen!
I JUST bought this phone last night off kijjiji and I'm reallly ****ting bricks now (no pun intended)
Any help whatsoever will be really appreciated
Added a screen shot of what it was stuck at a few minutes ago. I JUST managed to reboot it..but it's still stuck.
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Hi, hold it under a bright light and hold down power until it turns off, then reboot into bootloader, select recovery, then reflash the ROM
MacHackz said:
Hi, hold it under a bright light and hold down power until it turns off, then reboot into bootloader, select recovery, then reflash the ROM
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Hey I got the phone to restart and it goes almost immediately into the HTC screen again. I think "fastboot" setting is on or something. I just can't get it to go to the bootloader
MacHackz said:
Hi, hold it under a bright light and hold down power until it turns off, then reboot into bootloader, select recovery, then reflash the ROM
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Just tried it under my bright lamp too. No dice
Okay so I used Hansoons AIO toolkit to get it to load into CWM-based Recovery... phew
What's next!?
you need to do this when in fastboot
type fastboot erase cache
just to be sure redownload his rom
expertzero1 said:
you need to do this when in fastboot
type fastboot erase cache
just to be sure redownload his rom
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Not really sure how to get into fastboot. Will typing that command get me to fastboot and erase cache.
Here are my options now, using the Hasoon2000 AIO
1) Re-flash a recovery - ClockWorkMod, ClockworkMod Touch, TWRP AND THEN Install zip via sd card
2) Do above ^^ but install via sideload
3) Just erase cache with AIO and install zip from sim card
What should I do?
PoRco1x said:
Not really sure how to get into fastboot. Will typing that command get me to fastboot and erase cache.
Here are my options now, using the Hasoon2000 AIO
1) Re-flash a recovery - ClockWorkMod, ClockworkMod Touch, TWRP AND THEN Install zip via sd card
2) Do above ^^ but install via sideload
3) Just erase cache with AIO and install zip from sim card
What should I do?
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It doesn't matter, once you're in cwm recovery, reflash the Rom with a full wipe and you should be good. Calm down dude.
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just like the gentleman above said, you need to calm down first. If your phone can boot, although it hangs midway, it has a big chance not to be bricked in anyway.
And I don't advice you to use the AIO tools, just try to follow every simple guides to flash custom recovery-root-custom rom and you'll get familiar with the process in no time.
So I assume that you can boot into recovery, these are the steps that I think you should follow:
- re-download the custom rom that you wanna flash (make sure that the download is not corrupted)
- boot into recovery (in your case,CWM)
- wipe cache . wipe dalvik (in advance settings)
- install zip --> choose zip --> point to your custom rom
- you'll see the aroma installer, pick your options until it begins to install.
- if the installation went smoothly, don't reboot phone yet, get back to recovery, wipe cache/dalvik then reboot system and let the phone install the OS (first boot usually take long timer)
- if the installation hangs at midway, reboot again into recovery (power + vol down until button blinks and phone boots into bootloader) then start again from first step
once again, I advice you not to use the AIO tools. it's safe but you need to know what you are doing and the process to conquer your phone is not that hard.
What are you holding to try to enter bootloader? I use power and volume down and it works every time. Just hold them until the bootloader screen appears then let go.
Also, like others have said, it's better to use adb and fastboot commands yourself in cmd or terminal, rather than using the toolkit - it's not too hard, there are plenty of guides, you learn quicker and it's more satisfying
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ryryzz said:
just like the gentleman above said, you need to calm down first. If your phone can boot, although it hangs midway, it has a big chance not to be bricked in anyway.
And I don't advice you to use the AIO tools, just try to follow every simple guides to flash custom recovery-root-custom rom and you'll get familiar with the process in no time.
So I assume that you can boot into recovery, these are the steps that I think you should follow:
- re-download the custom rom that you wanna flash (make sure that the download is not corrupted)
- boot into recovery (in your case,CWM)
- wipe cache . wipe dalvik (in advance settings)
- install zip --> choose zip --> point to your custom rom
- you'll see the aroma installer, pick your options until it begins to install.
- if the installation went smoothly, don't reboot phone yet, get back to recovery, wipe cache/dalvik then reboot system and let the phone install the OS (first boot usually take long timer)
- if the installation hangs at midway, reboot again into recovery (power + vol down until button blinks and phone boots into bootloader) then start again from first step
once again, I advice you not to use the AIO tools. it's safe but you need to know what you are doing and the process to conquer your phone is not that hard.
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I really appreciate your reply man. Yeah, I need to calm down haha.
Alright, the problem is that I can't get into recovery mode unless I use the AIO tool. I've tried everything else. Using the volume down button, under the bright light etc etc. IT just goes straight to the HTC screen. It must be noted that I DID have problems getting into my bootloader before as well. A moderator of another forum made me download an app from the app store that let me either reboot int bootloader or reboot into recovery.
Rebooting in bootloader didn't work through that app either, it just restarted the phone, However,rebooting into recovery worked. Also, AIO tools doesn't seem to allow me to reboot into bootloader either... that command just restarts the phone and gets it stuck on HTC screen.... BUT the "reboot into recovery" works here too
Problem 2 ) The device is being detected by my pc but I can't access the file system in it. It just showing as a drive with no GB in it whatsoever . when I use "adb devices" in cmd it shows my device along with the serial id though.
So, what's your situation at the moment? You can get into recovery? What are you trying to do?
redbull123 said:
So, what's your situation at the moment? You can get into recovery? What are you trying to do?
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Well, I'm not sure what my course of action should be.
I'm in recovery mode right now. Got there using AIO.
The Android Revolution HD rom is STILL in there.
However, I'm wondering if I should put in a new rom using adb push (just watched a youtube video that says I can apparently do that)
Or should I REFLASH with new recovery and then install the rom?
What should be by next step? Because I dont want to be making mistakes
PoRco1x said:
I really appreciate your reply man. Yeah, I need to calm down haha.
Alright, the problem is that I can't get into recovery mode unless I use the AIO tool. I've tried everything else. Using the volume down button, under the bright light etc etc. IT just goes straight to the HTC screen. It must be noted that I DID have problems getting into my bootloader before as well. A moderator of another forum made me download an app from the app store that let me either reboot int bootloader or reboot into recovery.
Rebooting in bootloader didn't work through that app either, it just restarted the phone, However,rebooting into recovery worked. Also, AIO tools doesn't seem to allow me to reboot into bootloader either... that command just restarts the phone and gets it stuck on HTC screen.... BUT the "reboot into recovery" works here too
Problem 2 ) The device is being detected by my pc but I can't access the file system in it. It just showing as a drive with no GB in it whatsoever . when I use "adb devices" in cmd it shows my device along with the serial id though.
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It is not bricked, you should hold down your vol down+power a tad bit longer, you should hold it until the screen comes on and not until when it's turned off. If the installation is stucked in recovery you should be able to go to bootloader.
You need to mount usb to your computer first. If you cannot find the option to mount it, you probably need to push files through adb in fastboot mode.
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PoRco1x said:
Well, I'm not sure what my course of action should be.
I'm in recovery mode right now. Got there using AIO.
The Android Revolution HD rom is STILL in there.
However, I'm wondering if I should put in a new rom using adb push (just watched a youtube video that says I can apparently do that)
Or should I REFLASH with new recovery and then install the rom?
What should be by next step? Because I dont want to be making mistakes
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I would just try flashing the ROM again - it sticks at 30% all the time, it's a common problem with Aroma (the installer), nothing to do with anything you've done, nor the ROMs fault. It sometimes takes a few tries to get it properly. I'd recommend using the volume and power buttons to navigate around aroma instead of using the touchscreen...
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JazLiew said:
It is not bricked, you should hold down your vol down+power a tad bit longer, you should hold it until the screen comes on and not until when it's turned off. If the installation is stucked in recovery you should be able to go to bootloader.
You need to mount usb to your computer first. If you cannot find the option to mount it, you probably need to push files through adb in fastboot mode.
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Yeah, I tried that too. The phone was INITIALLY just stuck and wouldn't even restart. Nothing I did made it restart until finally... I used adb reboot bootloader to make the phone finally restart into the HTC screen. But no matter what I try to do, it hasn't taken me to the bootloader even ONCE, ever since I got the phone in fact.
Should I push in a new rom using adb? And if so, which one? Android Revolution HD (fresh download) or a different one that you recommend?
Btw, I apologise for the delayed replies, the forum is making me wait between each message since I'm new
PoRco1x said:
Well, I'm not sure what my course of action should be.
I'm in recovery mode right now. Got there using AIO.
The Android Revolution HD rom is STILL in there.
However, I'm wondering if I should put in a new rom using adb push (just watched a youtube video that says I can apparently do that)
Or should I REFLASH with new recovery and then install the rom?
What should be by next step? Because I dont want to be making mistakes
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While in recovery, on your computer try boot into bootloader with "adb reboot bootloader" and see if your phone can boot into fastboot mode. If it can, I strongly recommend you to COMPLETELY go back to stock by flashing your RUU.exe. After going back to stock, do the whole process of unlock/root again
redbull123 said:
I would just try flashing the ROM again - it sticks at 30% all the time, it's a common problem with Aroma (the installer), nothing to do with anything you've done, nor the ROMs fault. It sometimes takes a few tries to get it properly. I'd recommend using the volume power buttons to navigate around aroma instead of using the touchscreen...
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It's funny you mention that! I had serious issues navigating through the aroma installer, I would have to click the "next" button at least 2-3 times. And when I tried using the volume buttons, it would only go to the button inbetween "back" and "next" which was something like "more info"
Does this point toward any other issue? Or should I go ahead with flashing rom again?
ryryzz said:
While in recovery, on your computer try boot into bootloader with "adb reboot bootloader" and see if your phone can boot into fastboot mode. If it can, I strongly recommend you to COMPLETELY go back to stock by flashing your RUU.exe. After going back to stock, do the whole process of unlock/root again
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I used adb reboot bootloader to get OUT of the installtion screen, but it didnt take me to the bootloader (as usual) it just restarted. The AIO tools also didn't take me to bootloader when I used one of the commands there. So going to booatloader is really being impossible now!!
I think u need to send it to repair or warranty. Since you can't go to bootloader there's a lot of things you can't do right now.
So now I have two options at hand now...
1) Go ahead with rom installation (this I know how to do)
2) Flash official stock using RUU (this I dont know how to do yet, since I'm not entire sure what carrier this was initially on)

[Q] Moto X stuck in a boot loop

Hi,
So recently KitKat is released for AT&T Moto X's. Excited, I decided to upgrade the phone to KitKat.
I was previously rooted with RockMyMoto, and before updating to KitKat, I went to unroot the phone through the SuperSU app that was installed.
As I was unsure if it was really unrooted, I opened up Titanium Backup (which required root) and it popped up with an error that Titanium Backup wouldn't work because my device was not rooted.
So with this confirmation (a really noob way to check), I went ahead to download the update through the default system settings app. After the download, I proceeded to install it.
Before installing the update, it said the phone will shut down and proceed with the update, which takes around 20 minutes, and it will be done once it boots up again. And this is where the problem comes. After the phone switched off, the phone just reboots immediately, as if it was just restarting. And after 30 seconds or so, the phone switches off and restarts again. Initially, I thought this was normal, but it kept on restarting and I knew something was up.
I don't know what to do now. I have tried holding down the volume buttons and power button to reboot into recovery, but every time I select the recovery option, the phone just reboots like normal and does not reboot to recovery. I even tried to "race against time" and restore my phone through settings app, but it doesn't allow me to.
What can I do? Please help me
I looked up on the internet, and it seems that I have to remove the OTA cache from the cache folder, but how can I do it? I don;t have root access anymore...
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darylbu said:
Hi,
So recently KitKat is released for AT&T Moto X's. Excited, I decided to upgrade the phone to KitKat.
I was previously rooted with RockMyMoto, and before updating to KitKat, I went to unroot the phone through the SuperSU app that was installed.
As I was unsure if it was really unrooted, I opened up Titanium Backup (which required root) and it popped up with an error that Titanium Backup wouldn't work because my device was not rooted.
So with this confirmation (a really noob way to check), I went ahead to download the update through the default system settings app. After the download, I proceeded to install it.
Before installing the update, it said the phone will shut down and proceed with the update, which takes around 20 minutes, and it will be done once it boots up again. And this is where the problem comes. After the phone switched off, the phone just reboots immediately, as if it was just restarting. And after 30 seconds or so, the phone switches off and restarts again. Initially, I thought this was normal, but it kept on restarting and I knew something was up.
I don't know what to do now. I have tried holding down the volume buttons and power button to reboot into recovery, but every time I select the recovery option, the phone just reboots like normal and does not reboot to recovery. I even tried to "race against time" and restore my phone through settings app, but it doesn't allow me to.
What can I do? Please help me
I looked up on the internet, and it seems that I have to remove the OTA cache from the cache folder, but how can I do it? I don;t have root access anymore...
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How did you fix it?
I am having this very same problem. My phone just today went into boot loop. Running KangKat on unlocked 1053 with Faux kernel. No boot logo or anything. The phone just vibrates then after 30 seconds or so, it vibrates again. It does this non-stop.
I can plug my phone into USB and the phone's contents come up on my computer, but I can't get the screen to turn on!! Any ideas?
Recovery
Globalrebel said:
I am having this very same problem. My phone just today went into boot loop. Running KangKat on unlocked 1053 with Faux kernel. No boot logo or anything. The phone just vibrates then after 30 seconds or so, it vibrates again. It does this non-stop.
I can plug my phone into USB and the phone's contents come up on my computer, but I can't get the screen to turn on!! Any ideas?
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Are you able to hold power + volume to get in to your recovery?
Then you can reinstall your nandroid. Or, then you can flash a different rom.
MikeNaples said:
Are you able to hold power + volume to get in to your recovery?
Then you can reinstall your nandroid. Or, then you can flash a different rom.
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Or he can also boot into bootloader with adb by doing adb reboot bootloader then typing fastboot erase cache
serophia said:
Or he can also boot into bootloader with adb by doing adb reboot bootloader then typing fastboot erase cache
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This process seems to work quite well.
I'd recommend to use MFastboot. With your phone off, you can boot into fastboot by holding power and volume down for a few seconds, release and it will boot into fastboot. Connect the usb cable, and first try "fastboot erase cache". If that doesn't work by itself, repeat the process but also use "fastboot erase userdata" (THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA!) but at least there is a chance you might get it to boot normally. It´s like a factory reset, you will have to start from scratch.
I know my answer is out of date but it might be useful for someone coming for this same solution.
Moto x Stuck in TWRP loop
pls help me guys it just goes on restarting it dose not even goes in recovery mode
Guys.. I got struck at unlocked boot loader. Flashed TWRP on 5.1 ( GB retail rom). And its not booting now and not able to flash any rom.. kindly Help...!!!

[Q] Bricked experts out there come hither

So i got a new lg g2 for verizon last week. ive had good experiences with cyanomod and other roms so i figured off the bat that i would install one of these. turns out they were alot more problems than it was worth. so i went back to stock rom and rooted. for some reason i took OTA. now phone is stuck in fastboot. so i went through this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142. so i got everything done and figured out (running live ubuntu so getting automount to stop was a challenge and then figuring out the new file paths). so now i reboot phone and try to get into twrp (from complete power off hold power button and volume down, release when logo shows and press again). so i get the "do you want factory reset" screen and i click yes, yes then it just goes into fast boot again. problem is now not even linux is reconizing the device. device doesnt go into twrp. cant get into download mode to reflash. all i got is "[16370]fastboot mode started [16420]udc_start() [16590]-reset- [1660]-portcharge- [16640] fastboot: processing commands.
do i have any hope? the phone is new from a third party so i dont think i have a chance to return to the seller, and im not sure if lg will take it either
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also, just read and possibly part of problem, twrp was 2.7.1.0, either way though im still stuck with it at this point
ok, so just a bit more info. now when the phone is plugged into windows 7 computer it automatically installed a driver "USB Movem Phone ADB port". so i figured id try to run adb devices and see if it showed, no luck. dont know if this puts me in a different situation or not...
Did you try via terminal $ reboot-bootloader you may be able to force into bootloader for adb sideload twrp 2.7.0.0
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Adb and fastboot are two different programs. If your in fastboot mode computer won't recognize adb devices. While in fastboot mode, reboot-bootloader then see if you can get adb through toggling vol + or -
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actually i just got a step farther.... now i have twrp installed and working (turns out version 2.7.1.0 and 2.7.0.0 both didnt work with my phone even though i specifically got the versions for my phone. now im using 2.6.3.2 in case anyone else is having issues).
so twrp is on the phone. by random luck i apparently had all the rom zips left on the SD card. so i was able to flash a known working rom (at least it was working well enough to get by...). so i flashed the rom and rebooted the phone. unfortunatly it went straight back into twrp. i dont know if there is a flag i havent set or what. i thought i saw a walkthrough about what to do at this point, so im still working on it and i will update if i can fix it... but as i stated right now have twrp 2.6.3.2 working, still no download mode apparently(ill mess with this more because originally this is how i was flashing back to stock when things went wrong), and even though twrp installed a known working rom its still booting straight into twrp (without the whole power and volume down seqeunce...)
Some ROMs won't work on 2.6.3.2
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would it automatically go to twrp if the rom didnt work? the reason im asking is because when i was messing around with the roms throughout the week some of them didnt work (either black screen at boot, or bootloop with logo). and i would have to manually shut the phone off, then go through factory reset, then it would turn on twrp. right now the phone just turns on and goes straight to twrp
If recovery doesn't detect a compatible ROM it bootloops. That or corrupt download itself, make sure to verify md5s whenever possible.
Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
YAY, got it mostly back kinda sorta. so i followed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696 after getting back into twrp. i dont know what this did or if it helped. then i flashed a new rom (which i also by chance had on the SD already) i believe it was malladus 1.2.9 and it worked (except i didnt put gapps or anything so it was having a fit about play... now its restarted and i have download mode back so ill just flash the whole thing with the regular rom (the rom on this website might even be older than the phone, but for me it worked well...). here is that website i case anyone needs it http://www.lg-phones.org/guide-to-flash-restore-unbirck-verizon-lg-g2.html i will reflash and post results, hopefully a bone stock phone to start over with...
glenn3451 said:
would it automatically go to twrp if the rom didnt work? the reason im asking is because when i was messing around with the roms throughout the week some of them didnt work (either black screen at boot, or bootloop with logo). and i would have to manually shut the phone off, then go through factory reset, then it would turn on twrp. right now the phone just turns on and goes straight to twrp
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As far as a straight to recovery, I haven't had that problem on my g2. On my tablet,I run multi ROM recovery and it will go straight to recovery if a ROM is not installed. I would think it would do the same on vs980 twrp.
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btw thankyou for suggesting a different rom, wouldve probably been stuck for awhile without that advice. so flashed verizon stock firmware(which also deletes everything) and its 100% running with the exception of the activation (switched back to old phone while working on getting this guy running again). i feel like ive learned alot more than i ever wanted so ill stay subscribed to this thread and if anyone has similar issues when you post hopefully ill be able to help alittle... no promises though

[Q] Stuck in bootloop, cant access recovery

Post in wrong section, its 1st gen. Please move
So recently I decided to unlock my bootloader and flash CM12 on my Moto G 1st gen
Everything went fine till a friend told me to download and install Xposed. As I launched the app and hit frame work it mentioned creating a backup before installing so I did using TWRP. From there I rebooted the phone and thats where I ran into problems, it started to bootloop. After many hours (3 days to be exact) I still cant get it out of this state.
I thought I fixed it by reflashing, but apparently it just flashed it onto a seperate partition and the new ROM didnt work well (Notification bar didnt pull down right, no home button or multi-task). Since it didnt work I tried to wipe it and reflash but that apparently wouldnt boot, then I lost the ability to access recovery.
ADB doesnt find the device, I think usb debugging got disabled at some point.
I need some help on how to unbrick this, I'm 4 days in and still out of luck. Please!
Nobody?
You can´t access the recovery at all? When i get into a bootloop i need to do a little trick to enter recovery; hold down the power button for several seconds until it reboot, then as soon as the screen turns black hold the power button and volume down for 5 seconds to enter into bootloader. Then enter recovery from the bootloader, do a full wipe and install a stable rom. If you can´t connect the phone to the pc, take the sd card out and put it on another phone so you can connect it to a pc to transfer a stable rom for flashing on your phone.
Sorry this is late, completely forgot I post this. I can now get into recovery although some features dont work as the phone has nothing else on it. Got a USB OTG cable today and going to try mount cm12 that way.
Update : Using TWRP mount I now have files on the device (Data, boot, sys, system) which I didnt have before. Although I'm now getting a E:unable to mount '/system' but TWRP says Successful. Any thoughts?
Update 2 : Flashed it another 2 times, that seemed to fix it. Now no SIM detected.

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