Hi Everyone,
I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this as I've been at it for hours and I still can't do anything.
Basically at this point I think my phone is stuck in a reboot, what happens is when I open the phone the LG logo pops up, after that the T-Mobile 4G LTE screen with the white background shows up and the phone basically either gets stuck on that screen until the charging is finished or reboots every hour or so. I don't understand whats going on I've never touched the phones files and I've never rooted etc. I've also tried to hard reset but its the same problem. I found a ROM for this phone (original from TMobile) and I was planning on trying to install that and hopefully getting it to work but for that I need to be able to get into download mode, whenever I hold the volume up button and plug the cable in it goes straight to charging and my laptop says USB Charge only Interface (tried all 4 ports), I've also installed the LG United Mobile Driver but to no avail. Since my laptop is not recognizing that my phone is plugged in other than a simple sound and the laptop charging the phone I don't know how else I can get the phone to work because I cant access developer options either for the phone because of the reboot / stuck problem.
Does ANYONE have a fix for the problem? I don't want to go out and buy another phone because I really like this phone. I hope there's a fix. Thank you.
Ive come back to this issue and I still haven't found a solution, I'd be forever grateful if anyone has!
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Really need help guys. My SGS is doing REALLY funny things...
I just got my SGS a few days ago and so far all I've been doing is installing aps on it (no messing with rooting/flashing).
Today, I was trying to get Keis to work. I reinstalled Keis and unplugged and repluggeed my phone a few times and managed to get it to recognise.
Here's the problem, now it ALWAYS says USB connected on the top left hand corner. Everything seems ok except after a few minutes of the screen turning off, I can't turn it back on again. Absolutely no activity. If I try to turn it back on immediately after it goes off, it can come back on again.
Things get weirder. If I remove my battery or turn it off, I can't turn it back on again (it flashes a loading symbol in the middle of the screen for half a second then nothing happens). To turn it back on, I have to plug it in and wait for the charging screen to come on. THEN it comes on.
I've tried doing a factory reset but nothing changed... Is there a hardware fault? Perhaps flashing will solve the problem?
ps. When it's off, I can enter download mode but not recovery more unless I plug it in...
Sounds like a hardware problem on phone, But I beleive its more of a Grounding problem with your usb. Can you try it with another port or computer? Also does your pc/laptop have a grounding pin for its power supply? I noticed I get odd power spikes when I travel to asia as their power is not always good. You can always buy a surge protector for your computer and one for your samsung charger. Other then that see if you can get new KIEs (I Don't EVER use it as its crap and never reconizes my phone)
Also if you want to kick up a storm, get the thing replaced as it sounds like a phone hardware problem as it should not crash when you take battery out. Could be battery but better to change the whole thing.
Try activating USB DEBUG in settings. Check the option and restart.
It should solve the problem. You can UNCHECK again the option and the phone should work also without USB debug activated
It will happen again, it seem to me a problem with some USB port, or some cables, activating a *waiting for USB* option BEFORE the ROM loading
Thanks
Thanks for the advice guys. Last night it suddenly started behaving itself after the 10th or so hard reset *phew*
Very strange problem and I think I will stay well clear of Kies from now on... Samsung make a good phone but lousy software...
josephlck said:
Thanks for the advice guys. Last night it suddenly started behaving itself after the 10th or so hard reset *phew*
Very strange problem and I think I will stay well clear of Kies from now on... Samsung make a good phone but lousy software...
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I have a desire but the samsung daily briefing app, the media player, .... and my desire has some HW problems too
I decided to try and upgrade my galaxy tab 1010 to Gingerbread in the hopes that it would fix a problem which is that whenever I click on the power button to open my tablet (not to turn it on but just to resume from sleep or whatever), the screen lights up black and the bottom lights are on but it takes countless retries to get the thing to actually appear or it just stays black. Even a restart is not enough at times. This is causing me problems with updating because to make a CWM backup for example, it has to boot into the menu which I can no longer see after it shuts off. Sometimes it works fine, other times I give up trying to get the main screen to show up. I can click on the buttons at the bottom and get the vibration feedback and can also hear the audio going up/down when I click the volume buttons but often the screen will stay black.
The 2nd problem is that although I have Kies installed, every time I connect my device to my laptop (Windows 7), the laptop will install drivers for it separately. This is a problem because in Odin for example when I try to flash CWM on to there, after I've flashed it, it will turn off in order to reboot meaning that it disconnects from the laptop and when it boots back up, the laptop does not recognize. So to fix that 2nd problem, I need a way to install drivers on there so that my laptop always recognizes it rather than installing every time.
Thanks for any help....the black screen thing is really frustrating me and I've done some searches where others have black screen problems but their are usually different and the device won't come on at all in those cases rather than come on sometimes and not come on other times unless I try several times.
Good news is that I managed to upgrade to gingerbread with the root and it was working...Odin did the trick though still can't get anything going on Superoneclick on my Galaxy Player because it's not recognized when in USB debugging mode. Upgrading did fix the problem of the screen not coming on and staying black.
Bad news....installed bloatware removal tool, removed a few apps which I was sure were non-essentials (Samsung movie guide, visit Britain, couple more like that)....and it seems to have hard bricked. I found this tutorial on hard-unbricking but it's for the p1000, dunno if it would apply to the p1010: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312391
So gonna either try that or since this thing isn't under warranty anymore, I have to find somewhere in Mississauga Canada which will do a hard unbrick on this.
After my first update the phone is dead, I have my htc inc s for one
week(I think it was android 2.3.3 and it worked fine yesterday I got
update notification I've downloaded it and then the phone shutted down
and started with the dark screen with the green arrows in circle and
one inside facing down symbol and it stayed like that forever!I took
battery out and put back press power and its the same symbol! The phone
is from china got it from ebay and if I need to send it back for fixing
it will take a lot of time to come back!
So I tried battery out back in, volume down + pover the same green
arrow symbol,like this when plugged in my pc doesnt do nothing,after I
tried battery out than in, volume up + power and I got 3 vibes, orange
light and black screen, when plugged to my pc i says "qualcom CDMA
technologies MSM" device and it searches for drivers!
I dont believe that its possible to brick my device with the first
update that I got from the mobile network and I never touched nothing
like rooting or messing with my phone...
So what can I do now to fix it without losing my waranty and having
everything like it was before stock and working???
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP!!!
simshtcincs said:
After my first update the phone is dead, I have my htc inc s for one
week(I think it was android 2.3.3 and it worked fine yesterday I got
update notification I've downloaded it and then the phone shutted down
and started with the dark screen with the green arrows in circle and
one inside facing down symbol and it stayed like that forever!I took
battery out and put back press power and its the same symbol! The phone
is from china got it from ebay and if I need to send it back for fixing
it will take a lot of time to come back!
So I tried battery out back in, volume down + pover the same green
arrow symbol,like this when plugged in my pc doesnt do nothing,after I
tried battery out than in, volume up + power and I got 3 vibes, orange
light and black screen, when plugged to my pc i says "qualcom CDMA
technologies MSM" device and it searches for drivers!
I dont believe that its possible to brick my device with the first
update that I got from the mobile network and I never touched nothing
like rooting or messing with my phone...
So what can I do now to fix it without losing my waranty and having
everything like it was before stock and working???
PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP!!!
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Dont start 2 threads for the same thing with the exact same content -.-
So I can't boot my phone. Previously stable h811, unlocked bootloader running latest 20i Extreme 3.3 MM with G4 Tweaksbox. I have a Qi/NFC sticker on the back, but which has worked flawlessly and was not in use when the phone died. Here's what happened and what I have attempted.
Problem began when phone simply went black. The only thing running was Maps, which had a route displayed but was not in navigation mode. The screen went dark like normal, and when I went to wake the phone, nothing happened. I was in the car and tried plugging in the car charger and did not get a charge light. Pulled the battery and was unable to get a response. The phone and battery were quite warm.
When I got home, I tried a different battery, and the screen turned on to the LG initial boot screen, but nothing else happened.
After many battery pulls and attempts to boot into recovery, I tried it with the phone plugged into the computer. Finally, it showed the charging screen and light, and after several more attempts- pulling the battery and inserting it, then powering on, it appeared to be booting, (boot animation started, but then looped and froze on the initial boot screen (with bootloader state: bootloader unlocked in the upper corner). After another round of attempt/battery pull, it booted all the way up, but at that point I had my sim pulled. Pulled the battery and tried to restart and it froze on the initial boot screen again. Haven't been able to get into recovery at all, can't get into download, can't boot past the initial LG screen. Sometimes it loops, sometimes it just hangs. Nothing I do pressing combos of buttons, plugged into computer or unplugged, seems to change anything. The very farthest I've gotten is the breathe blue light before the boot animation, but then it looped. Now it's boot looping plugged into the computer.
Any ideas? I'm at a total loss.
bdportil said:
So I can't boot my phone. Previously stable h811, unlocked bootloader running latest 20i Extreme 3.3 MM with G4 Tweaksbox. I have a Qi/NFC sticker on the back, but which has worked flawlessly and was not in use when the phone died. Here's what happened and what I have attempted.
Problem began when phone simply went black. The only thing running was Maps, which had a route displayed but was not in navigation mode. The screen went dark like normal, and when I went to wake the phone, nothing happened. I was in the car and tried plugging in the car charger and did not get a charge light. Pulled the battery and was unable to get a response. The phone and battery were quite warm.
When I got home, I tried a different battery, and the screen turned on to the LG initial boot screen, but nothing else happened.
After many battery pulls and attempts to boot into recovery, I tried it with the phone plugged into the computer. Finally, it showed the charging screen and light, and after several more attempts- pulling the battery and inserting it, then powering on, it appeared to be booting, (boot animation started, but then looped and froze on the initial boot screen (with bootloader state: bootloader unlocked in the upper corner). After another round of attempt/battery pull, it booted all the way up, but at that point I had my sim pulled. Pulled the battery and tried to restart and it froze on the initial boot screen again. Haven't been able to get into recovery at all, can't get into download, can't boot past the initial LG screen. Sometimes it loops, sometimes it just hangs. Nothing I do pressing combos of buttons, plugged into computer or unplugged, seems to change anything. The very farthest I've gotten is the breathe blue light before the boot animation, but then it looped. Now it's boot looping plugged into the computer.
Any ideas? I'm at a total loss.
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Im bricked myself from another issue but i think there is a black screen of death issue with some of the g4s
Try to boot download mode and re flash stock kdz with Lg up tool
You will loose all data though.
Good luck on help here noones helped me at all .
The g4 is just not a good device or user friendly
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Black screen of death here too
Yesterday, I was using Chrome, site loading, screen just went black. I had about 1/2 battery at the time. I figured maybe the battery was just reporting wrong. When I got home, swapped batteries, same issue. I've been able to get into recovery and attempt a factory reset a couple of times (after many frustrating attempts.) The phone seems to only be able to be powered on for about 30 seconds before it goes black again. I'm going to attempt to fix with download mode now. If anyone else has solved a similar issue, any tips would be appreciated.
Hardware appears to be at fault!
Check this out, people!
http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-admits-g4-bootloop-problem-hardware-fault-669603/
Spread the word. Sounds like this is our problem. Apparently affecting mostly models with serial numbers starting 505xxxxx... which is what mine is. Called LG and they issued an RA# and shipping label to send it to them for service. I'm a little concerned since I didn't buy mine through a carrier, but this seems more like something of a soft recall than strictly a warranty issue, so I'm hoping they fix it no questions asked. I'll keep you guys posted on the progress.
Same thing happened to me today. My phone randomly shut off and it won't boot. Its stuck at the Android logo. I wasn't messing around with it. Just normal use (Snapchat, youtube). I tried booting into recovery but it just goes back to the android screen LG logo and keeps looping. I at least want to wipe the phone before I send it (personal info).
Same here. Mine has serial number starting 505, was purchased back at end of 5/2015 with not problems until this. I filled out the warranty repair form on LGs website and they sent me an RMA with label to get it fixed. I sent it in, they sent it back, and the only thing I see is on one sheet they printed out and included in the package said 'replaced board'. However, when I started up the phone it looked like new initialization with xx of yy apps initializing and then it began bootlooping with the LG splash screen. So frustrating!
So, this time I contacted t-mobile via their online chat, and did a warranty exchange through them. They will send me a replacement LG G4 next day ups air and I will send them the defective one for them to claim warranty themselves. We'll see where this goes. I might just take the replacement unit and do a tmobile jump exchange to another device. I wanted to wait for the new line of HTC nexus phones that are rumored for this year (and was loving the LG 4 until it died), but I might need to just jump twice this year and go for something like the new Samsung S7 of new LG G5 now and then again switch to HTC nexus once that comes out.
Sent mine to LG, and they fixed under warranty with no questions asked. Got it back within a week. All good now.
Ok long story
I bricked my device (totally dead, no power no dl mode no led not nothing at all), i know what i did wrong, then after plenty of research I ended up tripping the area in motherboard to bring phone back to life and I was successful. I brought it back to life started over completely with a stock device like new, I rooted and loaded up some roms and all was ok. Then....
Someone I knew needed a new device but did not want it rooted as they knew nothing about root and wanted a stock device, so I TOT all the way back to stock and told them the device would run through all the updates up to Lollipop and it did, BUT the OTA to lollipop bricked the device
Yes with the phone stock and doing regular updates it bricked, they brought it to me and I was able to trip the capacitors again and was able to get into bulk mode and AGAIN was able to bring device back to life, so I sat there and one by one let the updates come in on a COMPLETELY STOCK DEVICE and ONCE AGAIN the freakin OTA bricked the device, so.....
I have not been able to get it back, I went through the same steps to get device back, and I have now done everything possible (I think) and cannot get it back.
I have tripped the IC capacitors and gotten the 9006 and 9008, when I get the 9006 and all the partitions pop up, I use the SRK tool and it works, but then when I go to reboot I used to get the LG logo bootloop and was able to turn off and go into download mode, but now download mode freezes on the little icon and download mode never opens up, so in turn I cant TOT or KDZ back to stock. I have tried the boarddiag, I have even tried the Ubuntu fix and nothing, my symptoms so far:
download mode frozen with the little icon but download mode does not show up, I sometimes get just a vibration on/off that never ends, I have also gotten a red LED & LG logo boot loop. I have literally lost 2 days trying to figure this out. My question is, is there anyone that will do this for me. I will pay to ship and return, Please anyone.
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Ok long story
I bricked my device (totally dead, no power no dl mode no led not nothing at all), i know what i did wrong, then after plenty of research I ended up tripping the area in motherboard to bring phone back to life and I was successful. I brought it back to life started over completely with a stock device like new, I rooted and loaded up some roms and all was ok. Then....
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Hi,
Have you tried this ? -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
LMK if it helped you.
iubjaved said:
Hi,
Have you tried this ? -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
LMK if it helped you.
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Yes I tried that and Ubuntu would never see my device. Upon entering the first command I would not get a return command identifying my device.
Can you do one more thing? Disassemble your battery, reassemble it , plug it in wall charger , charge it for some time and go to download mode, see if its working?
iubjaved said:
Can you do one more thing? Disassemble your battery, reassemble it , plug it in wall charger , charge it for some time and go to download mode, see if its working?
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charged up.
This is where I am right now.....If I turn on the device i get LG screen then it turns off and LED flashes red one time, then it loops doing the same thing.
If I hold vol up and plug in it will show download mode about to start but then powers off and red LED and it boot loops again.
I noticed if I power off and hold power button, then it will vibrate on and off while im holding power button, weird.
If I open up device to trip ic in motherboard, the device does the weird vibration while plugged in as i am attempting to trip mb.
I can trip it though and get 9006 or 9008 with all the partitions popping up and i have used every single program on here to unbrick but after all those programs all i get is the damn LG screen and red LED boot loop. I am totally giving up.
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Then i have no idea what could fix your phone. I recommend you bring it to a repair shop.
iubjaved said:
Then i have no idea what could fix your phone. I recommend you bring it to a repair shop.
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Yeeah I think I will just let it go, it gave me a good run and I will just hang on to it just to have another device in the drawer.
Thanks for the help
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Yeeah I think I will just let it go, it gave me a good run and I will just hang on to it just to have another device in the drawer.
Thanks for the help
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Even though i had to replace my LCD recently, im still using this device as my daily driver though!
Np.