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Root Unbricking your Sprint or Virgin Mobile USA phone using official tools and dll and bin files

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I was stuck somewhere between clockwork and factory reset !!! All it would do is reboot into recovery mode and then reboot again ,,, i couldnt stop it without removing the battery. LG vm696 optimus elite.
(also had the error in flash tool. the c++ install fixed it !) (also used the wrong setup. i used to have a virgin mobile startup screen ,, now its sprint :p ) ( did the whole process over with the correct vm696 files, works with no problems :) )




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Will this method work with LG Optimus G LS970? Had my phone rooted, sprint pushed an update for my model causing my phone to deactivate. Needed to get it back to stock unrooted.
 
Nullox said:
Will this method work with LG Optimus G LS970? Had my phone rooted, sprint pushed an update for my model causing my phone to deactivate. Needed to get it back to stock unrooted.
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If you have the correct files for that particular model yes it will.
 
tjsanders said:
yes, this method put the phone back too factory out of box. it writes all the partitions,prl,stock recovery,stock rom, unroot
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My phone works fine , boots into recovery , Boots to CM9, but I need to Revert to stock due to a warranty for the phone not Registering USB connection and the touch screen acting crazy **

It charges just fine. plugged in to A/C and plugged into a PC. No device found - other phones discover/ install drivers / open up as a Storage Device ect.:confused::(
 
I've tried the method on my device and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Is there some indication that is running on the pc or the phone. How long should this process take?
 
I am at my wits end, can someone please help me. I have followed all the steps and it simply will not work. The phone is in download mode and the flash tool tells me it is ready on port one. Please help me.
 
It's not working with my LG Optimus F3 - as soon as I plug it in after clicking the arrow, the "Ready" changes to "Download Fail" with the error "Error WM_PROGRESS_MSG". It's incredibly frustrating. Any ideas?
 
Ive been having issues with my service but ive done just about everything to fix it but im starting to believe its my phone will this possibly fix this
 
tjsanders said:
All files in zip are officially from LG (DLL,BIN,LG FLASH Tools)


I have a new method how too flash your bricked phone back to factory stock. This flash is the LG Official firmware. This flash will wipe out everything and correctly flash prl,stock recovery,all partition. So let the get the ball rolling and lets hopefully get your phone back too fully working. Please follow all steps no short cutting, or altering files may cause issues with hardware and software too your phone. Please make sure you can get your phone in download mode before doing anything else.

Directions - Please read them carefully

1. Please make sure you have your LG Drivers installed before you start this process

2. Please download this file from this link provided
Sprint Users download this zip - Dev-Host - Sprint.zip - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
Virgin Mobile Users download this zip - Dev-Host - VirginMobileUSA.zip - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
Sprint Only LS696ZVF download this zip - Dev-Host - Sprint_LS696ZVF.zip - The Ultimate Free File Hosting / File Sharing Service
3. When the download is complete. Please open the zip folder and you will see a folder inside the zip called LG. take the LG folder and move it too C: drive

4. Please have at least 60 percent battery or more and put the phone in download mode. too get the phone in download mode. Please hold both volume buttons and plug in your usb cord into the phone
5. Now go too your device manager and look for your com ports and find your LGE Android USB Serial Port. Now double click it and look for advance and then click it. now we have too change the com port too 41. when you are done press ok and close it out.

6. Unplug your usb connection from phone and leave phone in download mode.

7. Now open your windows explorer go to C:\LG\LGFLASHTOOL and look for the filename LGFLASHTOOL and right click it and run as admin.

8. The program will open up. Now we need too program the LG Flashtool Software with Official LG DLL and Firmware and Comm Port

9. Go to port settings in the LG FlashTool program and select port 1 only. and please ok.

10. now we need too go too model settings in LG FlashTool and we need too select dll and bin files. I know it will show that we show the bin and dll already setup. But we too remove them and re add them. So do that now by choosing manual mode. and then select your dll and bin and then make sure your action mode is on upgrade DL and Connection Mode is on USB. once all that is correct. Press OK Box


11. Now we are ready too flash the phone.

12. too start the flash you will press the arrow on the top left side of LG FlashTool and begin the process when you press the arrow go ahead and plug in your device to the usb cable and the program will begin flashing the device . Please don't let your desktop or laptop cutoff during the process. Please do not remove phone from usb until the phone boots up for the first time. then unplug the phone and close out LG FlashTool. Now just do a factory data wipe in your settings and your good too go

13. Good Luck and hope this guide will help you and please show me so love and click the thanks button. I busted my hump too get these programs.

Notes- If your phone doesn't start the flash after pressing the arrow. just unplug the phone the download mode will stay on and replug in the usb port you used and within a few seconds it will begin.

Notes- Please use windows explorer too unzip the file so you can see LG folder too copy too c: drive of your pc. also once the phone reboots for the first time you can unplug the phone. also if you remember your msl number please do a ##786# enter your MSL so you will have a fresh voice and data.
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Do you have a method similar to this that will work for my rooted phone? The welcoming screen has Tracfone's Logo, but I only bought these to be used as an MP3 Player and to play Apps.This is what the information says inside of the "about phone" tab --- Model# LGL45C, Android 2.3.4, baseband version LGL45C_6170, Kernal 2.6.35.7, Build GRJ22, Software LGL45CT1

I rooted the phone, deleted somethings I didn't want on there, which made the phone not function correctly, and then I did the dreaded 'Factory Reset' which of course screwed it up even more majorly and I used terminal emulator to insert a code that i read on a different site and now it is stuck in 'CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7' and no method I've tried has worked. I have not tried the method in this post yet because my specific phone is not listed. So do you think I have any chance of bringing this thing back to life?

I have another phone exactly the same as this one (but in working order)...can I use it to help me revive my "broken" one?
 
snfproductions said:
Do you have a method similar to this that will work for my rooted phone? This is whatthe information says inside of the "about phone" tab --- Model# LGL45C, baseband version LGL45C_6170, Kernal 2.6.35.7, Build GRJ22, Software LGL45CT1

I rooted the phone, deleted somethings I didn't want on there, which made the phone not function correctly, and then I did the dreaded 'Factory Reset' which of course screwed it up even more majorly and I used terminal emulator to insert a code that i read on a different site and now it is stuck in 'CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7' and no method I've tried has worked. I have not tried the method in this post yet because my specific phone is not listed. So do you think I have any chance of bringing this thing back to life?

I have another phone exactly the same as this one (but in working order)...can I use it to help me revive my "broken" one?
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try flashing a rom
 
Never mind that last comment,I figured it out after a good minute of thinking about it.I clicked on the yellow arrow and the box labeled port 1 is telling me 'Ready!" ....how do i know when it will finish?
 
So I think I messed up bad. lol

I followed your tutorial step by step and everything seemed to be absolutely fine until I got WM_PROGRESS_MSG error at 1% and nothing worked after that. I'm getting:

Error WM_PROGRESS_MSG
DLParam Fail
DLParam Fail
FAIL

Any help? I'm on a VM

*Edit* - I can watch my devices in Device Manager and when the FlashTool begins the flash, the phone disappears from the list of devices and that's when the FlashTool begins spitting out errors. Typically around 20s or about 1%.
 
So, you can disregard my above post. It wasn't working at all, and continued to not work, and I had given up and was going to bed. I pulled the battery, put it back in, and it rebooted on its own and is working perfectly as far as I can tell. The only issue is that sometimes if you force it to shut down, it won't boot on the first try.
 
Well, hard-bricked my phone and it *looks* like I overwrote the boot partition while trying to set up a swap partition. This tool works great for soft-bricks, but if you have the "Qualcomm USB QDloader" showing up in device manager, I don't think this method works. I tried and I get errors as soon as the process starts.

Just out of curiosity tjsanders, do you know how to use QPST or LGNPST to fix hard-bricks? Or anyone, for that matter, if you have experience with QPST and LGNPST, I would be happy to help work out a hard-brick fix.
 
Fenix23 said:
Well, hard-bricked my phone and it *looks* like I overwrote the boot partition while trying to set up a swap partition. This tool works great for soft-bricks, but if you have the "Qualcomm USB QDloader" showing up in device manager, I don't think this method works. I tried and I get errors as soon as the process starts.

Just out of curiosity tjsanders, do you know how to use QPST or LGNPST to fix hard-bricks? Or anyone, for that matter, if you have experience with QPST and LGNPST, I would be happy to help work out a hard-brick fix.
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I thought the boot partition was always overwritten when flash a Rom(Or kernel)? Maybe android adb could fix it. might want to look into it.
 
Hi,
The Virgin Mobile link you posted are for a video player, and some sort of search protect? It's spam/virus links like these that make the Internet an unsafe place for good people.

Virgin Mobile Users download this zip - http://d-h.st/0kd

Can someone please help me restore my Virgin Mobile Optimus Elite back to Stock? I have already done a factory wipe, but I'm missing a lot of apps, my phone dialer to name an important one.
 
Be very careful: OK, there are 3 "download" links on the page TJSanders referred us to to get our factory ROMS. Only 1 of them isn't a virus or spam programs. (What a horrible page to refer us to TJ!!!)

The real link (as of today's date) is here:
http://fs1.d-h.st/download/00026/0kd/VirginMobileUSA. zip (<-- Move the .zip all the way left to complete the url. Copy and paste it into your browser. If you just "click" on TJ's link, the hyperlink with take you to the page with viruses).
His instructions are a little mixed up, but he does include everything you need to do with them. Just make sure that before you close any window or application you have read a few sentences ahead and checked every box, and added every file, etc. that he instructs, before you close that window or program.

At the end, my flashtool said :DOWNLOAD FAILED! That was inaccurate. I have all my original program again. A little sloppy, but good work TJ!
 
RyesenGrear said:
Any instructions on how to properly use these directions on Ubuntu? The phone has the same problem, won't boot - gets stuck on the LG and android orb screens, but enters download mode. The computer that would be fixing this loop runs on Ubuntu. The other option is to fix it on a Mac. If there aren't any known directions for Ubuntu, how would you go about doing it on a Mac?
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Thanks tsanders for the guide, fixed my Sprint LS696.

I run Ubuntu so I had to cheat and use Windows XP inside a Virtual Box session. Must have the vbox extension pack and the guest additions installed on XP for the usb passthrough. For me I had to create a USB device filter under Vbox so that the phone is instantly "connected" to XP when it's physically plugged in or the LGFlash tool won't detect and start the flash process. Otherwise it worked like everyone else described here; phone reset around 80% and booted right up, flashtool eventually errors at 100%.
 
hello all..ive learned quite a few things from this site..and am familiar with your method,.have used it many times..but today when i woke my phone was off..i charged it tried to boot it on,.wouldnt go past the flash screen..so after numerous attempts to correct i went to the flash tool..and it wouldnt work..i keep getting an error.. it goes "Verno,Dload mode,Modem" then "0xe Fail EMMC to Write Sector,command req." then quits..i have ADB and can get into recovery..but nothing is working,..any help is appreciated...thanks....
 
I was following the steps tjsanders posted and now my phone won't turn on/light up at all or go into download mode. Plugged into my compuer it is listed now in device manager as Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008 (COM41). Before it was listed as something else, but I cannot remember the exact name, but it had port after it and not COM like it does now. I've tried taking the battery out and reinstalling. I tried pressing both volume buttons then connecting usb cord to computer, but nothing has worked. I'm using Windows 8 if that matters. I'm a noob at all of this so any help is appreciated.

What can I do to fix my phone?
 
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