[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x_lord:
Soft Bricked Sprint LS980?

Hello, I'm having a similar problem. I haven't had a phone for a couple years since tinkering with my Evo and thought I still knew what I was doing with my new G2. That proved to be incorrect. :(

I had it semi rooted. (I followed the instructions using Ioroot and Kingo) I wasn't able to change APN and use GSM for Metro PCS

After reading up about the spark patch I followed a tutorial (not very well obviously) and managed to get the phone will it will no longer boot.

I can get it into bootloader, and a frozen in download mode. otherwise it just hangs at the LG logo.

Is there a way to recover from bootloader?

I copied twrp-2.6.3.2-g2spr.img and zv7-aboot.img to the phone and did the following.

Here are the commands I used with the guide. I looks like I was using 2 different guides at once..... :/

Originally Posted by darkpoe View Post

This phone does not use Mass storage mode, it uses MTP, you will see it as a phone inside windows explorer and when you click into it you will see "internal storage" this internal storage is what I am referring to as the root of the sdcard (as they are as well)

Also, dont blame me if your phone dies, all this stuff will void your warranty of your phone and your toaster!

Hit the build number under about phone --> software until developer mode is enabled

goto developer mode turn on mtp mode

go download twrp from there site http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/197

I used kingo but cant link on xda ,, google it .. its on cnet as well

get http://koush.com/post/universal-adb-driver install (works on all windows)

get http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...oot-installer/has good quick adb install it

copy the downloaded openrecovery for sprint onto the phone directly into the "root" folder (root folder being like when you look at yoru C: drive in windows explorer that is the root folder under linux), when you plug into the pc, make sure in mtp mode

with phone still plugged in run kingo and root it

it will reboot

with phone plugged in run "adb usb" from command prompt on pc (from the link for adb that it installed, it will open a command prompt for you in the proper folder when you click it)

approve adb connection on phone

then run "adb shell" from command prompt on pc

type su, approve it on phone

paste this next line exactly at the prompt

********** this is the line I used from a different guide ***** dd if=/sdcard/zv7-aboot.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot

dd if=/sdcard/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.2-g2spr.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

let it flash

it will say bytes copied and you will be good

type reboot inside the shell

the phone will reboot

I use goo manager from play store to boot into recovery, I dont even know the key combo for it yet.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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---------- Post added at 02:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 AM ----------

Found this: Worked like a charm.

–]rdsqc22 2 points 23 days ago

Alright, sorry to comment on something 3 months old, but I just had this problem and managed to solve it.

When in the mode described above, you are still able to use Fastboot. Get a linux computer and install fastboot.

Then, go here: http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G2/LS980/Stock_Firmware/zvc_partitions

Download the images for laf, aboot, boot, and recovery.

type the following commands in fastboot:

fastboot erase boot

fastboot erase aboot

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot erase laf

fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img

fastboot flash aboot 4-aboot.img

fastboot flash recovery 10-recovery.img

fastboot flash laf 11-laf.img

fastboot reboot

This fixed the problem for me. Good luck!