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[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] shahrit:
GT-N5110 wifi stopped working after 4.4.2 upgrade- Hardware issues, how to replace?

Hi All,

I have the same issue and have tried multiple workarounds first believing it is due to software upgrade but even after downgrading it back to stock, wifi button greyed out and couldn't scan wifi networks most of the times. After repeated attempts, it would scan nearby wifi networks but when you select it, it would just say "secured and saved" instead of connect it. I have checked password/wifi router settings and hard re-set my router etc without any success. I can't connect to any open wifi network either outside of my home to isolate any issues with my own home network for wifi. Also all of the other devices in my home connects with my network fine making me think it is now a hardware issue and would need to replace brokern/faulty wifi part? If so, any link/suggestions on how to go about replacing faulty hardware part to make wifi work again?

Thanks,
[General Questions and Answers] Duvalking904:
I know the phone is fairly new and all but is there anyone out there with a stock ROM for the lg tribute 2? I rooted with kinguser and was attempting to flash twrp recovery on it and i bricked it up unfortunately. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
Model number?
[General Questions and Answers] timtedtomtod:
Also Bricked

Not OP but also bricked my Tribute 2 trying to root. Model number is LS665
[General Questions and Answers] boostingmobile:
Here is the stock recovery for the ls665 tribute 2 by boost mobile

Here is the stock recovery for the ls665 tribute 2 hope this helps y'all I will post the link in a few minutes drive.google.com/file/d/0B76ml2yzUbRZMmE4eG03bWo1N0E/view?usp=docslist_api
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
What can the stock recovery help me??

I am looking for the full firmware....
[General Questions and Answers] boostingmobile:
Okay give me a sec a I'll pull it off my phone for you but let me restore my phone to factory right quick

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Check back tomorrow or the next day and I'll have it for you I still have to figure out how to do that... Lol
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
I hope there's a way!!....

Use the reply button to quote me or use the [MENTION=6227500]Newyork![/MENTION] to mention me so i can know that you replied to me.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
Hey guys

Im having the same problem so if there is a way to fix it id like to know it when its available c:
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
How did you root it?

If you rooted it with the LG One click tool than there's a way to unbrick it very easily
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
No I used Kingroot sadly...probably was a bad idea
[General Questions and Answers] Kidd22:
How? I bricked my phone trying to root it with the lg one click
[General Questions and Answers] anand96999:
i also soft bricked my lg tribute ls665 while rooting with kingo root

its on boot looping with lg logo with authentication fail error 9

needed a stock rom to fix the issue
[General Questions and Answers] Corbald:
Good news guys. There appears to be a solution. This helped me unbrick mine: http://xdaforums.com/android/development/guide-how-to-root-lgls770-5-1-1-t3184649 (Note that it's for another phone entirely, but it DOES work with the Tribute 2 (LS665))
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
I've tried it a few times and it didn't work..I'll try again though
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
sadly didnt work for me
[General Questions and Answers] wajiema:
If we can get the TOT file or a KDZ it will be easy to fix but until then looks like we are stuck, unless someone has a working phone they can pull it from if so let me know and i'll help them get the files off the phone we need.:p

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What kind of file is this, is it a .img, .tot, .tar.md5. Would like to know before i try and flash it:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
Will only work if the devices was bricked the first time with the One click for kitkat and 5.0.1

If it was bricked with kingroot then you're in deep trouble...
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
What can we do for the king root method?
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
Sadly boost mobile won't give out any stock firmware :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
Ugh ;-; well I'll probably just send it to LG
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
Send it back to boost, they'll give you a new one...

Btw next time you reply, please use the reply button to quote me so i can know that you replied....
[General Questions and Answers] herpderp454:
I tried and i was told to go to LG instead
[General Questions and Answers] wajiema:
I was with LG chat this morning they said the would submit a ticket to get it repaired in house and will not give out the firmware either.
[General Questions and Answers] monsta182003:
Can someone who is rooted upload the system app OmaDmclient.apk and the entire folder from your ls660?
[General Questions and Answers] kgonepostl:
So from what I understand this is unrootable?
[General Questions and Answers] NonfatGinger:
I'm coming in very late here, I'm sure. But if anyone is still looking for a one click root method for the Tribute2, I used Wondershare. They rooted my first and second generation tribute. And have yet to fail me.
[General Questions and Answers] SPARTAN_TECH:
Model number is LS665 does nayone have stock FW kdz or tot doesnt matter

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i used this way but i cant unbrick wiped cache an factroy reset in recovery and still stuck at logo
[General Questions and Answers] dea1222:
how to extract firmware?

Hi. I have a new one of these Boost LG LS665 phones. Can someone give me detailed instructions on how to back up or copy the firmware so that the backed up (or copied) firmware can be used on another device? Detailed. No acronyms. No ambiguity in instructions. Please? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] PalmCentro:
There's really no way, we don't have a KDZ or a TOT.
[General Questions and Answers] dea1222:
Well, that certainly does not sound good. What is a KDZ or a TOT? In any case, thank you tremendously for the reply!
[General Questions and Answers] Psiufoxx:
I confirm that the Wondershare approach works! I'm rooted and ready ;)
[General Questions and Answers] awardedstream22:
Didnt work

Dear user the link didmt work for me and i do need the recovery do u have another link i may access so i can get the lg tribute 2 from boost mobile recovery file. Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] karimgosen:
Maybe this works

Guys i think i find somethig.

"forums.easy-firmware" copy the 2 parts in the browser

".com/showthread.php?tid=606"

i did not downloaded it yet. but i will try later.

somebody plase try this ... and if is working let us know.
[General Questions and Answers] wrq6555:
Its not working, Can anybody help..
[General Questions and Answers] karimgosen:
as an ultimate alternative. i left my computer trying to unzip a paid tool that is locked whit a password..... im traying to brute-force atack the zip file. IF (big IF) ... if i can unzip it, i will upload the tool to MEGA, and share it for free, im really trying all to unlock this brick :(

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i hope somebody find a way to unlock the bootloader... valid root methods kernels...etc for this phone... is a very cheap phone, very capable and is 1 year old... i really dont know why nobody is working on develop for this phone
[General Questions and Answers] NonfatGinger:
Hey bro u wanna download it and see about hosting the file so others can access it easier?
[General Questions and Answers] faizabul:
I have the .TOT file and .dll file for LG LS665, if anybody wants thrn i can share.
[General Questions and Answers] wrq6555:
Please share the firmware for LG L665 if you have it ?
[General Questions and Answers] karimgosen:
Wow. I did not find anything useful yet, please share! thanks :) :)
[General Questions and Answers] karimgosen:
http://androidforums.com/threads/lg-tribute-2-boost-reference-guide.935920/

here is a backup file in zip
[General Questions and Answers] Chadhoe27:
kdz

so has anybody cracked the password to the kdz zip file floating around or managed to find one
[General Questions and Answers] wrq6555:
I have bricked my lg tribute ls665 while rooting with kingroot

its on boot looping with lg logo with authentication fail error 9

needed a stock rom to fix the issue, Please assist and provide the procedure to fix it..
[General Questions and Answers] Chadhoe27:
As far as i know nobody has been able to find stock kdz for it but im sure it might have a custom rom floating around somewhere. if u do find anything give me a hollar. there is a post that everyone claims will fix it but it just doesnt work for me
[General Questions and Answers] bmccullah07:
so....

did anyone find a fix or get the firmwear cause my phone is still in a bootloop
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
I'd like some help today, I have the lg ls665 from boost. But I had rooted it with kingroot I believe, but root isn't the issue. I can always get that again. The issue is everytime I want to factory reset or hard reset (key way). And I get a secure booting error. Does anyone know how to fix it or know what it is? I don't usually work on lg phones (usually tougher and more annoying). But I'd really like to reset this one so I can install a new update that came out today. also if anyone knows what the 149.6mb update brings, do let me know as well.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help with either thing. (:
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
First of all, when dealing with a rooted device, factory resetting from system settings or stock recovery and hard resetting causes issues. Best to use a custom recovery for factory resetting because it doesn't cause issues on a rooted device.

Second, to apply the stock update you have to unroot, have stock recovery instead of custom and an unmodified system partition(basically you have to go back to the stock you started with), most stock updates cause issues when trying to update a rooted device unless it is flashed using the devices compatible flashing software on PC.
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
The only issue is that this is the Boost Mobile Version of the phone. Which has no Cwm NOR Twrp support. Secondly I never changed it's recovery, I first tried to boot into it when I first got the phone (hand me down) and it gave me that error as well. It's an odd phone, and I've yet to find a stock image. And I had already unrooted and removed any root apps or root on it. I never modified the stock parititon nor any of that. Just rooted, was hoping for support on this phone but nothing as of yet. The Flashfire method never worked either.

Really wishing there was a way to fix this, I really want to mod this phone and havea secondary modded device.
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
I'm having the same problems as Faithless Imperials. Flashfire didn't work and I tried twice. Just runs through a "loading" screen where multiple filenames scroll down then reboots with no change, and the update notification pops back up in the notifications bar. I wish I knew what was in this update so that I could know whether it's even worth it or not.

As much as I'd like to update to Marshmallow(if the new update even IS Marshmallow), I don't know that I want to go through the trouble of re-rooting this phone. This is my first smartphone, ergo my first root, and I rooted via a thread here and it took a while to get it right.

I'm not experienced in flashing ROMs or custom recoveries, and from the above post it seems useless to learn, seeing as there's no stock image.

Also, my phone only has 8GB of space, most of which is used. I have a 1GB MicroSD in my phone and I bought the paid version of Link2SD so that once I got a bigger MicroSD I could install more apps(the entire reason I rooted in the first place and I haven't even been able to do this because I haven't been able to afford a new MicroSD...further reason this update is exasperating me).

I have no space to even make a backup, and as far as I know there's no tool to back up to my Mac. Any ideas for solving this?
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
"As much as I'd like to update to Marshmallow(if the new update even IS Marshmallow), I don't know that I want to go through the trouble of re-rooting this phone. This is my first smartphone, ergo my first root, and I rooted via a thread here and it took a while to get it right."

A little tip, use kingroot download it from their site, install and then go through the root set up, it'll ask for persmission and you'll be rooted. Then Install any rootcheck of your choice and check for it. You'll be good, and I saw you mentioned you got flash fire to work.

How did you do that? I have root, and all that jazz. But even after downloading flashfire and having root, it gives me an error that it has none. Either the root I used is somehow bad or not right. I'd like to know what methods you used to root. Would be nice to finally use flashfire if possible.
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
I read of too many people bricking their phones with Kingroot to trust using it myself. I used a manual method that for me personally took some time, secondary software installs and tweaking to produce a rooted Boost LG Tribute 2. I'll edit my post with the XDA link in a bit that allowed me to do this. As far as Flashfire is concerned, for me, it didn't work to install the newest update. It runs and when it reboots the update notification pops back up.

It's annoying to have no idea what the new update even is. If it's a new version of Android, it may not even be rootable yet. I can't afford a new phone so bricking isn't an option.
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
I see, well I've used it many times before, hell I spent five minutes last night rerooting it with a back up of kingroot I had made before attempting to update. It worked perfectly fine, I've got root on my lg. But I'll let you be the judge of that if you ever do decide to use for root. As for FlashFire, I honestly just want to get it working so I can install xposed and add a couple things. Phones perfectly fine (apart from the ****ty storage), plus I've a modded s4 as it is on cm13. But I do hope it is the MM update, because you may be able to take advantage of the format sd card as internal feature. Works amazingly. But back on topic. I shall await your post edit and see what happens. Thank you again!
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
I read about the SD-to-Internal feature, but I'd rather just use Link2SD to move my apps to my SD. The aforesaid feature completely removes the ability to even use or access your on-board memory...rather useless side effect in my opinion.

From what I can understand, if your bootloader isn't unlocked, Flashfire is useless in flashing OTA updates. The LG Tribute 2 offers an "OEM Unlock" feature in the Developer Options, supposedly allowing the bootloader to be unlocked. The problem is trying to obtain a bootloader unlock code. LG only offers support for three of its phones on its developer website. If anyone knows of an unlock code please tell me!

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http://xdaforums.com/lg-g-stylo/how-to/guide-how-to-root-lgls770-5-1-1-t3184649

This is how I rooted my phone. I had to use my mom's Windows laptop since I have a mac, and it took just a little tweaking on my end to get it to finally root. Now I'm on a mission to find a bootloader unlock code. I have a plan A and I'm going to put that into action soon...if it fails then on to plan B!...whatever that is...
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
Thank you for the link, I'll try it out in a wee bit when my lg fully charges. Was testing battery percentages on it to see if that'd make a difference (dumb but eh worth trying). But nothing sadly, still the same error.

Also I never really used the feature much, it killed a brand new 32gb micro sd card I had bought literally a few days prior and my other 32gb card was just being kick off the phone and forcing me to reformat and lose so much data. It was just hell, I haven't used it since. And with the app, I've tried it but never really got it working for me, on my s4 that is. Never tried it on my lg, might give that a look into as well. And bootlocker codes? what would those look like exactly? and I'll see if I can find one at all. Haven't thought you'd need one for bootlocker unlocking (goes to show how much I know about the little things in android). and hey, I wish ya the best of luck man. And if you are able to successfully find a way, do let me know. Would love to try the same :D
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
"Best of luck, girl, rather. xD

And apparently LG doesn't support bootloader unlock for any phones other than the 3 phones listed on its website. And a lot of folks aren't happy about this. Neither am I and when the time comes I'll avoid LG phones.

There's got to be a way around this. I'm the kind of person who doesn't give up easily when it comes to circumventing technological issues. If I can find a working solution (that falls within legal limits) I don't mind trying.

If anyone has a way to unlock a Tribute 2 bootloader, please let us know.
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
Oh, well miss I wish ya the best of luck.

And ****, well I guess it'd be more fun to look for the codes rather than to get them so easily. And this is my first LG device. I've mostly had Samsung (s2, s3, s4, s5, note, note 2, 3, and 4 and a couple cheaper metro ones). my whole life, apart from the usual Apple device (Ipods, 4s and 5/5s and a reg 6). Oddly love my s4 more, although might upgrade to the note 3 or 4. But back on topic, having tried the many things for the lg and failing. really been skeptical of any work being done on the boost mobile variant. But hey anything that'd help, and I gave the link you gave me some attention and apart from one folder (site was down, so no download atm). Everything seems to be easy to do, although I did find someone mentioning the OEM unlock toggle. And I thought turning it on would do anything. It did freeze my lg on start. but a quick battery pull fixed that. And another issue, could not for the life of me get into download mode. It doesn't show any indication nor go into it. Just reboots normally.

This phones turning out to be a tough one, all of those samsung ones were a walk in the park. But lg, what is happening with you guys..jesus.

But yeah, gonna keep trying and looking. Will keep informed of anything. And as [MENTION=7365785]IrishSnow35[/MENTION] said, Do let us know of any codes for unlocking the bootloader. Would really appreciate it. (:
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
Samsung and HTC are two manufacturers that provide ways to make development easier for their devices. They have some unlocking resources for a number of their phones.

There are ways to build your own smartphone using Raspberry Pi. It's not very customizable but it's an interesting build. http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/?ALLSTEPS

Wish I could do something like that! xD
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
honestly love samsung for the easy and painfree development. And oh my, I believe I've heard of that, never really seemed interested, although it is pretty neat. Would do it if i could but eh atm can't be arsed with it.
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
So maybe someone can at least answer these two questions for me...

If I install the OTA update using the native system's installer from the notification bar...

A. Will the update install correctly?

B. If I lose root, will I be able to root again?
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
If I remember from my attempt in installing it. It reboots and gives me the secure booting error. and when it does turn on, the update disappears and DOES NOT reappear. So until then I'd say not to update yet, and root will need to be removed just to install it. Otherwise you might get a warning saying it's an modified system partition.
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
Thanks for that. Well, SuperSU does offer an unroot option, not that I want to use it. ><
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
I think I've tried it before and it never worked, for me at least. I'm guessing the type of root I had (if there is a type) was wrong or wasn't a legit one. Idk I gave the phone to my mother since she was in need of one. But I'll try to work on it and see what I can do.
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
UPDATE: Good news, if your update fails to install and you go to try again, it won't show up. But if you were to wait for a couple days, it'd pop up. Although it seems to go through for me, but then something hangs and it gives me the Secure Booting Error. Although it went further, I'm wondering what's holding it back now. Hmmm
[General Questions and Answers] DXM31:
I tried the update before reading this thread and like others it didn't work, I got the booting error. Originally the phone was rooted with

Kingroot and it was fine. This is the wife's phone and she would have no idea what a rooted phone is or why root it or even what version of android she is running...I think she knows it's android. But I would like to fix it. So I guess I need to check back.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Actually, its a general rule that you MUST unroot to apply an OTA update, it actually goes further than that, you have to have stock recovery instead of custom and you have to have an unmodified system partition, including the removal of everything that has modified system partition. This includes removing Xposed and its modules, any themes/fonts that have modified system, etc...
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
I never made any custom recoveries or installed Xposed or custom ROMs or themes. All I wanted was the ability to install and move whole apps to my SD card. So if unrooting from SuperSU doesn't work, what can I do? And if I do unroot, will it break my links and apps on my SD card?
[General Questions and Answers] Faithless Imperials:
As she said, there was no Xposed nor custom roms or themes. Currently for me, I've a few options that I can't try because of certain issues. But eh I don't mind waiting for ways to fix then.

Also [MENTION=7365785]IrishSnow35[/MENTION] if the links to SD card requires root to work, it will break the links to it I believe. If it doesn't I don't think it will. But you may be screwed there, since it'd require root. And atm it's not worth updating if you get that Secure Booting Issue, so I'd stay the way you are currently. And the unrooting may work, just never worked for me because when I tried it I hadn't realized CM had it's own SuperSu. Hopefully this helps
[General Questions and Answers] IrishSnow35:
So I have a new question. Is there a way to pull the giant OTA file off my phone and store it on my computer for future use? I realize I may have to have access to a hidden file but if someone can help me out with that I'd be grateful. That way some megabytes will be freed on my phone and I can get rid of the glaring "INSTALL IT NOW" notification.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
OTA updates are usually downloaded and stored in cache instead of in your download folder. It can be retrieved from cache but "where" it is actually located is different depending on your device, wherever your device stores its cached data. If you locate where the OTA was stored(if you've already downloaded it), you should be able to move/copy it and store it wherever you want.