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Root Bricked Viper Help

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adamsse

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So I might have bricked my new Viper. I rooted the phone just fine. Everything seemed to be fine. I wanted to do a factory reset. After I did that it booted into CWM and I can't seem to do anything else. I can get the phone into download mode and use LG tools to goto factory settings but it does not seem to make a difference. Does anyone know of a way to re-set everything? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
adamsse said:
So I might have bricked my new Viper. I rooted the phone just fine. Everything seemed to be fine. I wanted to do a factory reset. After I did that it booted into CWM and I can't seem to do anything else. I can get the phone into download mode and use LG tools to goto factory settings but it does not seem to make a difference. Does anyone know of a way to re-set everything? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Where did you get cwm for the viper from???
 
Did anyone have any luck on a fix for this? I just locked my Viper up. Stuck in a boot loop. When I try to go back and load a copy of the stock image file I saved before rooting I get an MD5 mismatch. Some help would be great.

Thanks all.
 
sparkyslots said:
Did anyone have any luck on a fix for this? I just locked my Viper up. Stuck in a boot loop. When I try to go back and load a copy of the stock image file I saved before rooting I get an MD5 mismatch. Some help would be great.

Thanks all.
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Hey, you have the stock .img file for the Viper's stock ROM????????? Pleave send it to me my Viper's bricked at the boot animation... :'(
 
PlayfulGod said:
just recovery n,boot
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This won't work if your using any kind of Clockwork Recovery.

I found out the hard way.

Played around for 2 days until I found out that Clockwork flashed my phone to a different model. (VS840)

If you unbrick the phone and go on the LG support update, if will check the model of your phone and flash it by the model number that it reads.

See our phones should be an LS840 but mine was changed when I wiped the data.

The Clockwork version I tried to used was for the LG Connect 4G (5.8.3.1)
this recovery worked great until you tried to flash a kernel or restore an img.

So phone is dead. Ordering a new one off ebay.


Ok now for the fun part if you want.

Uunbrick you ask, well yes there is away to get you at least back to the LG update if you want to try and.

See as stated I was at the LG logo screen and couldn't do nothing. well here it goes.

All this does is get you back to LG update.
(plug in usb cable & hold the volume up key while turning on the phone)

First step if you can get into CWM you will need to do a small update. go here:

(ClockworkMod looping after flashing. Download this and flash in recovery
Change the file to update and run it then reboot your phone holding down the keys stated above.
This will get you back to the LG update. Good Luck!



However like I said beware of the model number!
 
sparkyslots said:
This won't work if your using any kind of Clockwork Recovery.

I found out the hard way.

Played around for 2 days until I found out that Clockwork flashed my phone to a different model. (VS840)

If you unbrick the phone and go on the LG support update, if will check the model of your phone and flash it by the model number that it reads.

See our phones should be an LS840 but mine was changed when I wiped the data.

The Clockwork version I tried to used was for the LG Connect 4G (5.8.3.1)
this recovery worked great until you tried to flash a kernel or restore an img.

So phone is dead. Ordering a new one off ebay.


Ok now for the fun part if you want.

Uunbrick you ask, well yes there is away to get you at least back to the LG update if you want to try and.

See as stated I was at the LG logo screen and couldn't do nothing. well here it goes.

All this does is get you back to LG update.
(plug in usb cable & hold the volume up key while turning on the phone)

First step if you can get into CWM you will need to do a small update. go here:

(ClockworkMod looping after flashing. Download this and flash in recovery
Change the file to update and run it then reboot your phone holding down the keys stated above.
This will get you back to the LG update. Good Luck!



However like I said beware of the model number!
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There's actually another way, but it's a bit more complicated..

If anyone's interested, I'll do a write-up, but it's only in theory atm because I'm not bricking my girl's phone (she'd kill me, lol). I know how it SHOULD work, but never actually tried it.

My question for this theory to work right, is, can you access the phone via adb while it gets stuck like this?

Peace,
~WickiD~
 
If you can get phone to boot into download mode...on my old warp it was volume up amd down together while powering up..LED lights up red...PC should read it but not adb...but you can try the Samsung odin tool which will recognize the phone just need the right system .tar to flash
 
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