[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c00lit:
I would like to thank this wonderful community for all the help I have gotten over the years, I think this should be my first post.

For technical details of all I have done and learned on recovering the damn phone, skip to below the line, the rest is more of an introduction + some history.

In the past I have had a Canadian (BELL) Samsung Galaxy S2.5 as I like to call it. Specs similar to the S3 but not quite.

That was fairly easy to root thanks to odin.

Anyways, I have an LG G2 that I inherited from my brother, so I have some emotional attachment given he passed away 2 years ago (Age 36)... Reason why it is critical that I fix it.

I feel it's a great phone with excellent specs, with some flaws.

Hardware wise, this phone's digitizer seems to fail after a few years and stops registering touches.

Failed on my brother after 8 months, he got it replaced by videotron.

8 months after my ownership, same issue. I replaced the screen, which is a pain.

I dropped it a year later and broke the screen, replaced again.

Replaced the battery twice (First replacement battery was DOA) and... The internals of this phone are a pain to work with... to my limited experience at least.

The get to the point line as stated above.

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I wanted to flash my 4 year old never reinstalled phone, give it new life.

Researched a bit everywhere, verified in the phone what version it is, even most google results tell me this and the replacement screen is all the same.

it's a D801

After some work and research being clueless about working with this model, I finally installed

Started with getting Dev powers by spamming a specific key, setting usb debugging...

Using some application manager.

Installed

D801_AutoRec.apk

Towelroot.apk

From autorec, I installed the twrp and... fastboot... had no idea what that was.

Here I learned how to recover my phone.

This guy... super helpful.

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So in short Download all the necessary drivers to get the android device detected.

Download those

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I erased and flashed so often now that I scripted it in a batch file

Notepad, save as (not as text) flash****.bat or whatever you want to call it.

fastboot erase boot

fastboot erase aboot

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot erase laf

fastboot erase dbi

fastboot erase modem

fastboot erase persist

fastboot erase PrimaryGPT

fastboot erase rpm

fastboot erase stl1

fastboot erase tz

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash aboot aboot.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash laf laf.img

fastboot flash dbi dbi.img

fastboot flash modem modem.img

fastboot flash persist persist.img

fastboot flash PrimaryGPT PrimaryGPT.img

fastboot flash rpm rpm.img

fastboot flash stl1 stl1.img

fastboot flash tz tz.img

Originally, I only did boot aboot recovery and iaf

After that, my phone rebooted to the LG logo and stuck, but the Download mode is working again.

At that point I did flash a twrp recovery and was able to run it using the command abd reboot recovery

I pushed different roms, but no matter what I do, always back to fastboot.

Found this video later on, originally found a thread here but for the life of me I can't find it anymore (too much history) (How to recover with LG Tools the original kdz

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Now... I could not find the correct firmware

I used this

T-Mobile KitKat D80120A_00

IT worked, my phone restarted as it was before my adventures, but under a tmobile d801

Here I am happy, I get the proper D803_AutoRec.apk

Install the recovery again...

Now I really broke my phone.

Retried the steps above of flashing aboot and so on...

Refuses to work.

So I figured, hey, I recovered it under D801 tmobile... I probably broke it with the D803 recovery.

Back to the download site, made another folder and downloaded all the D801 img's

Ran my script (well that's when I created it from being sick of typing it)

Now I boot Tmobile but it's stuck to All Auto Test - FTM Mode

SUrprisingly on wifi,, shows missed calls and picking up exchange emails...

When I try to Flash as I have before under download, it fails.

SO hey, it found a 300MB tmobile update... why the hell not at this point.

Can anyone link me the proper software I can try to recover the LG Tools ?

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and

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Don't seem to work

Did I mess it up beyond repair ?

Any recommendations ?

I am hoping for one of the following

If I get tmobile OS working

Retry the D801_AutoRec.apk given it matches the tmobile recovery that somewhat works and then attempt the original goal of setting up CloudyFlex_2.8, CloudyStock_2.7 or cm-12-20150325-UNOFFICIAL-d803

Pretty sure up there, most of those wont work, I just want a working twrp

All I want is this phone wiped with a clean efficient rom to use as a reliable daily.

All I do is phone, text, exchange, camera, some apps... nothing too fancy.

I am off to sleep