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[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Mine was stuck on the processing twrp screen for at least 10 minutes.

Clicking back did nothing, but home button took me out. Then when i went back in, it was normal no problem. If i tried clicking back though, it would get stuck at the processing screen again even though i didnt tell it to do anything (i just clicked back). Then it quickly said complete or something, so i did reboot recovery and game over.

It looks like everyone here thats bricked just got their phone quite recently (like me)...something's definitely going on
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
Is it possible that the freegee app download is corrupt and is not Installing recovery properly that redlight almost seems like its a hard brick this sounds a lot worse than a softbrick
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Maybe that's possible, i have no idea. Definitely a lot worse than a soft brick. I'm really hoping shelnutt can figure something out. If it's truly hard bricked, what options would there be verizon wise? Like take it back or exchange or something
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
That's really the only option I am going to look in the user guide to see if it says anything about a redlight plug them in for awhile and if they get hot it is most ddefinately a hardbrick do not go to sleep with these plugged in that is very dangerous check tommorow try to charge it but keep a close eye on it and if still nothing take it to verizon and hope for the best I any developers wanting to get in contact with shellnut I'm by no means a developer

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Everybody having this problem only with the vs980 right anybody with other variants please post here we need shellnut to see this so he might be able to figure out what's going wrong
[Verizon LG G2] TheOriginalKyle:
Same Here

Worst part is I used freegee a while ago and it worked PERFECTLY. Not a single problem to be found then when I flashed mine back to stock and went through the whole process again. It fails no logo, no downloader mode, no recovery mode. Just a blank screen and it vibrates. -_- I also don't get the red flashing light.
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Dangerous how? And is there any risk in taking it to verizon, considering we're rooted?

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Plug the phone into your computer, them hold the power button for a long time. Red light starts flashing on mine
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
The battery might overheat and I dought there is any danger taking it to Verizon it sounds like it is hardbricked if they can't get it to turn on it should be fine if I were you guys i would stay away from freegee until this issue is fixed
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Yea i doubt verizon will be able to fix it anyways. Maybe ill take it to them later this week and see what they say.

If there's a next time, i'm pushing twrp.lok manually with adb which is what i should have done in the first place
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
No, the zips it downloads are signed, so if it's a corrupt download it won't pass sig check of the zip file, and it won't process it.

People have used freegee on 12b for months with no issues. I'm baffled why all of sudden in the last 24hours it seems several people have run into issues with twrp. I've disabled twrp for now until we figure out what the actual issue is.

Freegee itself does not alter anything except the recovery partition when installing a recovery on Verizon 12b. And it wipes and flashes the recovery partition in the same action. The boot stack is not touch, nor is any part of the system/boot partitions touched.

The fact that no one's device shows up in qhusb mode in windows means no one is bricked. No one's device is in bulk mode either, so the devices should be able to boot normal, or boot into download mode.

Nothing has changed with freegee in the last 24 hours, besides a beta build I pushed to the beta channel of the playstore. No one is running the beta currently according to google though.

Were you guys running anything else besides a pure stock rom? How did everyone root?
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
I know I'm just as confused as you are I installed twrp with 12b just fine about a month ago this is very strange I'm just wondering what exactly does the blinking redlight and vibrating mean is it in some sort of mode but no display or did it just run the battery down
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
I got freegee from the playstore so i dont think it was beta. I rooted with ioroot22 and rootchecker confirmed it. Then i debloated a little with titanium backup. I actually tried making an onandroid (thread on xda somewhere for it) before trying to get recovery, but it kept saying it was read only even though the permissions said r/w (maybe irrelevant but who knows). Anyways, i just ended up skipping it because its not that important and went to freegee

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I was running stock rom, just uninstalled some verizon bloatware
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
When did everyone get there devices? Or how/when did you go back to stock? Also everyones software version was 12b correct?
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
My phone arrived at my house yesterday

Yep, 12b for me.

Everyone else who's in this situation, please post your answers to shelnutt too...more will help
[Verizon LG G2] twolasrnames:
Same thing for me.

Rooted last night with ioroot

installed xposed, and the 2 g2 xposed modules (forget the exact names)

Same thing happened, hung on installing twrp for a while (5-10 minutes) left the app to google how long freegee takes to install a recovery, came back, it eventually wanted to reboot to recovery, I let it. That time it booted to the busted andoid buy screen, got it to reboot with power and volume down.

Came all the way back up, checked freegee again, clicked on the install twrp button, it said it was successful, so I tried to boot to recovery from FreeGee, and nothing after that. ADB does not seem to see it either at this point.

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[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
Rooted with the current ioroot. Total stock Rom. I just received the phone today. I sold my previous one to a relative.The installation of the signed recovery just hung and wouldn't install. Eventually, after exiting and returning to the app it said recovery was installed. It never completed the install for some reason but said it did. (Imo) My phone is bricked. I went to big red, My replacement is coming. I just don't get why the install issue with the recovery.
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
What exactly did you say/do to get them to give you a replacement? I would love to do the same but ive never dealt with this before, please post or pm me what to do
[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
Has anyone seen issues with recovery manually being installed?
[Verizon LG G2] blue26:
Just got back from exchanging mine. Pretty painless, just told them it wouldn't turn on, they tried messing with it for a bit and labeled it a "DOA replacement" and gave me a new one.
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Only issue ive seen is when someone on 12b tries to install the regular twrp img's that everyone on 11a was using. Doesnt brick the phone or anything, it just fails. The recovery has to be loki'd to work for 12b. There was a link posted here to the thread that has the correct recovery for verizon 12b. You just need to extract the twrp.lok + loki flash and adb push them.

I saw in the thread that a couple people did it successfully, so i would think its ok
[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
My first g2, I had bought in the fall, I did it manually and no issues. When I get my replacement I'm definitely going that route. Whatever the issue is I hope it's discovered cause I'm quite disgusted over this, as I'm sure others are. I bought this one used so I guess I didn't qualify for a new one. Or the person didn't know about DOA replacement. I can wait a couple days for my replacement.
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
Would you mind dumping your aboot, boot, recovery, and sbl1 for me? I would like to see what it is about these new phones.

I've completely disabled 12b support for now fyi.
[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
I bought mine used so it was just factory reset.
[Verizon LG G2] newuzer1:
Mine was literally new. I put the sim in, turned it on and established google account, rooted with ioroot24 (root.bat), downloaded freegee from play store, chose twrp 2.3.3.3....then bricked
[Verizon LG G2] newuzer1:
Doing a quick search, looks like this has happened before with Optimus G

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2528876

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46231214&postcount=6

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49323201#post49323201
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
Newuzer1, those threads you linked are for different devices and different freegee versions. For the optimus g its a completely different unlock process. For the g pro there was an issue where on initial release some people got older versions from the playstore due to Google doing a staged release. That was fixes by just telling people they needed to be on a specific version or newer.

This is that is happening with brand new Verizon g2 is unique and is only people who have devices from a newer batch in the factory. Many people have uses freegee with no issues for months on the g2.

I've pulled 12b support until I find out what the actual issue here is. No ones device is actually hard bricked or in a nonrecoverable state though.
[Verizon LG G2] newuzer1:
If that's the case, how can it be recovered?
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
Just to give you guys an update right now.

I've confirmed with two independent people who have own their g2's for months that using freegee for cwm or twrp yesterday/today did not cause any issue. One person was still on stock, the other restored a back up they had and tested.

The TWRP 2.6.3.3 zip freegee downloads hasn't changed since December 28th, and there hasn't been an update to the freegee apk since February 9th. This leads me to believe that something has changed with the phones rolling off the factory. If it was a bug in freegee, there others before this, and the people who tested it for me yesterday and today would have encountered it also.

It's also not that just your bootloader is loki blocked. If you bootloader wasn't loki supported, then freegee would have given you a failed message on attempting the action.

I have a user with a new VS980 running 12b that is going to dump the partitions for me so I can see what is what. Until I know what caused this I can't offer a solution. The fact that no one is in qhusb mode means things are not hard bricked. Why no one can boot normally, access download mode or boot into bulk mode I am not sure at this point.

As soon as I get the partition images, or find someone to get me a log I'll see what is going on here.
[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
I'm trying to find out the age of the used one I bought off Swappa. I'm sure it's a few months old.

Edit:My device is 3 months old and never previously rooted.
[Verizon LG G2] Shelnutt2:
Can someone boot up a linux livecd, and post a lsusb and a dmesg of having the device plugged in, so we can see what state it's booting to. Or post the usb and vendor id from device manager.
[Verizon LG G2] dR0ck1:
As I said in my first post in this thread: I had no problems using FreeGee until yesterday. I installed Clockwork and TWRP from it. I had to use TWRP to install Malladus, I was trying other roms and liked the CW feel better so went back to that. Then yesterday I wanted to go back to Malladus, so tried installing TWRP again, since my phone already had the file for TWRP on it, FreeGee didn't download it again, it just said it was installing TWRP and it took a while, like 10 minutes, so I 'home'd out, killed FreeGee and tried again, it worked this time, within seconds, so I went into the TWRP manager I downloaded from PlayStore and tried to make a back up, and the phone tried rebooting into recovery and just went black, for over 10 minutes. I tried turning it back on and it just vibrated for a second and nothing. Plugged it in a the computer doesn't recognize anything. Luckily I have a friend and BestBuy mobile and he just exchanged it for me. Kind of just restating what everyone has been saying, and trying to say that the phone absolutely couldn't be booted up by any means. :-\
[Verizon LG G2] TheOriginalKyle:
I talked with verizon today and just said it wasn't booting up, looks like i'm getting a replacement in the mail by Tuesday.
[Verizon LG G2] drewbieX:
I was able to get TWRP 6.2.3.3 to install properly through FreeGee on my VS98012B after getting a couple errors attempting to flash it manually. (Link to the guide)

It kept giving me an error about busybox not being installed and '/acct cant execute, is a directory' so I tried it with FreeGee and the app hung for 10 minutes same as everyone else. Checked to see if it was normal for it to take so long and stumbled on this thread. Installed busybox (I figured that might have been the problem if both methods were failing), rebooted, went through FreeGee again and after about 10 second it said it had completed, opened up ROM Manager to create a backup and it booted and backed up without any issues.

I've been trying to install CM 10.2 but it keeps failing, so I don't know if that might be related to the TWRP issue everyone is having or if I just missed a step somewhere.

Hope this info will help somehow.
[Verizon LG G2] newuzer1:
You're brave for trying freegee on a VS98012B after all these issues. I thought VS98012B was blocked/pulled by shellnet...

When was this when you used freegee?
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
When did you get your phone?

I had busybox installed so that shouldn't be an issue
[Verizon LG G2] drewbieX:
[MENTION=5606986]newuzer1[/MENTION] I wasnt aware about the issues with FreeGee until after I had run it but it seemed to me that it installed correctly after rebooting and running it the second time. This was last night right before i had posted. I'm not sure what shellnet is since I didn't come across it going through the tutorials.

[MENTION=5685657]xemnas18[/MENTION] I got this phone off craigslist new in box about 2 weeks ago. I think the guy i bought it from had been tying to sell it for about 2 weeks so i would imagine he got it about that time with a contact renewal.
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
So the phone's about a month old, maybe more. I don't think your situation is the same as everyone else's here. The reason the manual method didn't work for you is because those img files are not loki patched for 12b. You would have to push twrp.lok and loki flash with adb in order for the manual method to work for you. (Those files are here).

Shelnutt is the developer of freegee and he did say that he pulled 12b support from freegee so I don't know how you were using it.
[Verizon LG G2] bleedingthru:
This is weird I,bought this phone last Thursday rooted Friday using ioroot and later Friday night used freegee to flash twrp and it worked flawlessly for me was gonna use freegee to flash recovery to my wife's g2 but maybe I'll try again pushing twrp using adb but for some reason adb kept saying the phone was offline but anyways freegee worked fine for me and my fw was vs98012b
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Where did you buy the phone from? If you got it new shipped from Verizon then that is really weird
[Verizon LG G2] bleedingthru:
Ya went to Verizon last Thursday me and my wife got new g2 phones
[Verizon LG G2] droidrev71:
My phone is three months old and bit the bullet just like others. That's just what makes this whole thing so crazy.
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
does anybody know if thistock is still a problem with 12b is it safe to reinstall recovery lol had to flash back to stock
[Verizon LG G2] spinninbsod:
is this still a problem with 12b i tried it on 11a it said not supported unrooted took ota it doesent give a not supported error but am afraid to do it if this is still an ongoing issue
[Verizon LG G2] Lawlrus:
Can you use the hardware keys to get into recovery?

Sent from my VS980 4G
[Verizon LG G2] inkstained:
Same scenario...

I'm having issues ...Haven't had the phone two weeks, Rooted with ioroot and purchased freegee. The OTA came through in spite of me not allowing it. I was running stock rom. Now all I get is either the LG screen and pulsing green light or TWRP Recovery. No backup files or anything... I can get into download mode though...I know I'm new to this device and don't know what I'm doing...Can someone please help???
[Verizon LG G2] xemnas18:
Use this guide to go back to stock and then start over again. This time make sure you freeze ota's with titanium backup (or just flash a rom that has ota's removed). Warning though, that guide will wipe your internal sd card. It will be like you just got the phone from the factory, but it should fix your problem and give you a fresh start.
[Verizon LG G2] BriVG:
Freegee has issues with 12B from what I've read. I would go with flashing TWRP 2.7 through the Flashify app to be safe

Sent from my VS980 4G
[Verizon LG G2] boulder2016:
Yes I did that the other day and did the OTA update, very dumb of me... :(
[Verizon LG G2] glenwinjames:
anybody got this solved

Anyone got this solved? This just happened to me...black screen...only 1 vibration pulse if power button is held in for 10 secs...20secs=flashing red led...thats the only sign of life i got.... :(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Gumm1worm:
Ok I just got the Note 3 today. I been searching the web for info on rooting and installing a custom rum. I love cm roms. I owned the gs3 and had cm10 and loved the pure google experience. So now im hearing about my phone has a bootloader lock and i cant install custom roms? Some please explain in one post everything that going on with this phone. I searched around and getting mixed into here and there. I dont care about tripping knox. I just want ride of touch wize and want my CM11. Please clarify for me please. thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] graydiggy:
Impossible at this time. Yes, we have locked bootloaders.

There is an everything you need to know guide right in the same section you posted in... It will explain in detail and provide links of what you can do. As of right now, we can only do custom TW ROMs. We may never have anything else.

And just a reminder, questions go in the QA section.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Gumm1worm:
Thank you sir!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roadrunner123:
Hello,

since i install CM11-M4 (before i have original Rom from LG installed) the USB to my Win7 PC lost while i copy .mp3 files onto the LG-G2 after 5-10 files. After disconnect and reconnect the USB connection i can copy again 5 to 10 files and then the connection lost / freeze again. Windows "says" it is not able to copy the file and abort.

The Problem also happens as .jpg files. But what i observe is, that the connection is only lost, if i transfered files are bigger then ~4MB. If i use ~2MB files the problem not occure

In USB setting of the LG the "MTB" is enabled,

Is this a know problem and is therfore a solution ?

Thx for help !

Best regards

Roadrunner
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roadrunner123:
Hi,

I make on more observation.

If i copy the files one by one, then i can copy infinite files. So thats hard, if you want to copy a few albums to the phone :(. But if i try to copy more then 10 files in one procedure, then the USB connection hangs.

The same probleme occures on a second PC with Windows 8.

regards

Roadrunner
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danilow_16:
I have the same issue here, I don't know how to fix it, I'm running last cm11, from 0324

win7 or win8.1, same issue
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zachmille96:
Try putting all your music in one folder and copying them like that. If that doesnt work then upgrade your drivers
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamchocho:
I am on cm 11 m4 stock kernel and its been crashing/rebooting on me occasionally. Earlier today it did so and now all my accounts (2xgmail, fb, twitter, cm)and text messages are gone. Other data appears to be intact such as XDA and untappd. Anyone able to provide any tips to help figure out what the hell is going on and possibly where my accounts all went?

Not at a PC now so I'll have to do some searching. The XDA app searching is not so good...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
sounds like data corrupted after a crash. do you use fsync off? if it crashes often for you, id look for a new rom thats more stable than cm(no, cm isnt the epitome of stable).
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamchocho:
Unless fsync is defaulted off in bone stock cm then no I don't.

Likely going to go try some others after this incident.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deakelem:
I've seen this happened many times before I don't think it's a ROM issue but more a recovery issue. try rebooting one or two more times to see if everything works as normal I notice sometimes the data partition wont mount correctly and hence the lack of accounts

Seen this with stock too update to twrp 2.7 and see if the reboots help to mount the ddata partition.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamchocho:
I've rebooted multiple times but it didn't help with bringing back what was lost. Tried fix perms also to no avail. Just updated to twrp 2.7 and did another fix perms but no change. Now that I've re-setup a few accounts those are staying just fine and new SMS messages since the problem are there. It's odd because it is acting like I wiped data but only for apps that have an account under the system settings menu.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] jonling:
Question - When I go to Samsung Apps and try to make a purchase (logged in) it shows my perks balance of $50, with a check box. It will not check. It just wants me to add a credit card. I cannot get it to use the perks. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] RussellEstridge25:
You have to add your credit card info. They just hope that you'll use it by mistake or in the future. But once you add your info you can then use your 50 bucks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] jonling:
That did it.....

Samsung support had me on the phone for 1/2 hour and didn't know that....

THANKS !
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] RussellEstridge25:
Lol wow... Glad it worked, that can be frustrating.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bob_man_uk:
The vulpix kernel seems to have installed 2 apps that kaspersky keeps flagging up.

I also get notifications for adult videos etc that only started when I flashed vulpix kernel. One of the apps is terminal emulator and I can't remember the other.

I can't seem to remove the apps... They don't show in the app list.

Any thoughts?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ik8ozv:
Hi to the list,

i own tha handsfree kit parrot CK-3300 paired with the

qtek 9000.Since i've upgrade the PDA ROM i have noticed a problem.

When i syncronize the PDA contacts with the Parrot, in the Parrot i find like two phonebooks.

The first one contains all the contacts as i inserted them in the pda but at the end of the names there is added an /H or an /M or an /W.

The second one at the end of the first one without any division, contains all the contacts as i inserted them in the pda but without any added characters and/or letters at the end of the names.

All this, is one under another without any division.

Ifi try to delete the contacts which contains the added letter at the end of the name in the Parrot, it say that it is impossible to delete it.

Anyone can tell mewhy this and how to solve it out?

Thanks in advance for help.

Enzo.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szpan:
Ok, so I got an application that blocked it's use in genymotion and bluestacks lately. I tried using xprivacy, device spoofer, editing smali code but can't find a good solution. Any ideas on a workaround on this?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szpan:
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