good evening people, i really hope you can help me as im getting really sad about it. two days i go i went on to update my g2to lollipop via pc suite, but it crashed, leaving my phone to fastboot mode, no recovery or download mode. during my 15+ hour research, reading many guides and posts, i tried to use fastboot but it never completes a command, just hangs ie 'writing 'etc. the thing is that on the phone screen the command is being shown, but nothing happens...please be so kind as to aid me....thanks in advance
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G2 bricked, tried everything...
- Thread starter GeorgeDev
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Haris Gusić
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Have you tried this? http://www.android.gs/unbrick-lg-g2/
@iowabowtech is pretty handy with LG's (I think), he might be able to assist. From my limited knowledge though, no download mode probably means you're goosed.
iowabowtech
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Yeah this is a bad situation. The only way I've managed to fix one of these was to open up the phone and short the mobo capacitors to invoke qhsusb_bulk mode. In my case it ended up in QDLoader 9008 instead which is also fixable.
You're not alone. Several people have been reporting these lately.
so this is what you suggest? there is no other way or explanations why fastboot wont actually complete the commands?the thing is, when i type a command the phone actually responds and shows the command, but no file transfer happens whatsoever...so would you suggest opening the phone and meddling with the mobo or wait a reply about the warranty? do you think they would cover this kind of situations? (course i wont tell them i rooted the phone). oh, i dont know if its of any importance, but my phone is showing in device manager as adb fastboot interface or something similar.
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iowabowtech
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I can't tell you what do do on that. They'll know its been rooted if they restore it because the root flag is still tripped. My theory is once I decide to root and mod a phone, I take ownership of that decision if anything breaks so I tore into mine and fixed it. I haven't yet seen anybody else fix one of these phones where fastboot is not responsive.
iowabowtech
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/lg-g2-unbrickable-fix-real-hard-brick-t2904404
^^Those are the instructs to short the capacitors. Pay particular attention to the part about leaving the battery disconnected when doing the actual shorting procedure. NEVER touch a wire to the mobo without the battery being disconnected.
When you short the capacitors correctly, it will end up in one of two modes...qhsusb_bulk (9006) or QDLoader 9008. However, it may not show up correctly until you update the driver in device manager by right clicking on the device, updating driver, choose your own driver and point it to these:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7460142/Qcomm_Drivers.zip
Unzip those onto desktop or location of your choosing into a regular folder of the same name. Then when you're updating the driver, select the entire folder of drivers as the target. Windows will search out the correct driver inside for your machine.
The 9006 can be fixed by dd writing partitions similar to how you would use fastboot mode to do the same. You can use THESE instructs to fix a 9006, however do not write the partitions they list there, instead write aboot, boot, dbi, laf, rpm, sbl1 and tz only for your variant. That will restore download mode at which point you can flash a kdz/tot. Here's a repository of the partitions for the G2:
http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G2/
You can fix a 9008 brick by using THESE instructs and your phone's partitions. It will also restore download mode at which point you can flash a kdz/tot to restore fully. The mobo shorting tutorial assumes the end result of 9006, since I got 9008, I had to leave my battery disconnected the whole time performing the 9008 repair with the boardiag tool. That is counter to the shorting tutorial where it says to reconnect the battery before restoring the partitions. Doing that continually kicked me back out of bulk and eventually landed me in 9008 so just be advised on that.
Also, when shorting the mobo, I first tried using a very small wire (phone wire) and eventually switched to a small speaker wire with some of the strands cut. leaving maybe 5-6 strands which I then rolled together with my fingers. I found this created multiple points of contact because there are 3 pins (one above and two below) that you have to hit all that the same time and a single wire didn't work for me. It still took me upwards of 5-10 minutes to hit the sweet spot and get the short made correctly. You can hear the PC ding when you get it right, that's how you know. The phone may vibrate continually up to that point. If so, don't let that stop you.
Return to stock instructs once download mode has been restored:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
^^Those are the instructs to short the capacitors. Pay particular attention to the part about leaving the battery disconnected when doing the actual shorting procedure. NEVER touch a wire to the mobo without the battery being disconnected.
When you short the capacitors correctly, it will end up in one of two modes...qhsusb_bulk (9006) or QDLoader 9008. However, it may not show up correctly until you update the driver in device manager by right clicking on the device, updating driver, choose your own driver and point it to these:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7460142/Qcomm_Drivers.zip
Unzip those onto desktop or location of your choosing into a regular folder of the same name. Then when you're updating the driver, select the entire folder of drivers as the target. Windows will search out the correct driver inside for your machine.
The 9006 can be fixed by dd writing partitions similar to how you would use fastboot mode to do the same. You can use THESE instructs to fix a 9006, however do not write the partitions they list there, instead write aboot, boot, dbi, laf, rpm, sbl1 and tz only for your variant. That will restore download mode at which point you can flash a kdz/tot. Here's a repository of the partitions for the G2:
http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G2/
You can fix a 9008 brick by using THESE instructs and your phone's partitions. It will also restore download mode at which point you can flash a kdz/tot to restore fully. The mobo shorting tutorial assumes the end result of 9006, since I got 9008, I had to leave my battery disconnected the whole time performing the 9008 repair with the boardiag tool. That is counter to the shorting tutorial where it says to reconnect the battery before restoring the partitions. Doing that continually kicked me back out of bulk and eventually landed me in 9008 so just be advised on that.
Also, when shorting the mobo, I first tried using a very small wire (phone wire) and eventually switched to a small speaker wire with some of the strands cut. leaving maybe 5-6 strands which I then rolled together with my fingers. I found this created multiple points of contact because there are 3 pins (one above and two below) that you have to hit all that the same time and a single wire didn't work for me. It still took me upwards of 5-10 minutes to hit the sweet spot and get the short made correctly. You can hear the PC ding when you get it right, that's how you know. The phone may vibrate continually up to that point. If so, don't let that stop you.
Return to stock instructs once download mode has been restored:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
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iowabowtech
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I made a few more edits to the instructs above for clarity.
iowabowtech
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@GeorgeDev any luck on this?
Well...i sent it hoping my warranty would cover the damage which indeed was the case, today i got it back brand new, flashed android lollipop and everything seems to be fine except the camera which for some reason shoots blurry images, even though it focuses correctly and in hd.