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[G4 General] Hostilian:
I had a G4 that had a boot loop.. Fortunately, I purchased from Amazon and they refunded me (after sending it back to LG - and they sent it back because it was rooted)..

Still bought another G4 - because it's a good phone. Though the seller screwed me over by using a fake serial number on a reconditioned phone.. Amazon to the rescue again.. Refund.

Bought another one direct from them - with a proper serial number (and no boot loop) to replace it..

Working great..

I do like the G4.. For the price, it was superb..

If they released one with a slightly more efficient processor and better battery life AND at the right price point (I think paying £600 for a phone that'll last you 2 years is nuts) then fine..

Maybe, is the answer..
[G4 General] Minto107:
I've heard that you can fit some 3rd party battery that packs around 3800mAh and it has much better battery life

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
3800 mAh?
[G4 General] Minto107:
Yep take a look at accessories forum here

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[G4 General] fegitoli:
I'd buy one.

As long as the price doesn't reach the thousands.
[G4 General] stillsober:
what is SD84X?
[G4 General] Ciccius-IT:
Snap Dragon series 845 or above

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
The X can be replaced by any number i.e. the next gen flagship Snapdragon SOC
[G4 General] deltadiesel:
Anyone complaining about software updates should be happy

Some phones don't get a single update
[G4 General] Xdekker:
Tbh, Android update versions don't bother me at all, anything from 5.1 and up is all just kinda the same tbh. It all comes down to the skin these days.. Where we used to laugh at Samsung's touchwiz I honestly, dare I say it, think that with the Note 8 it's the best in the industry. Followed closely by HTC Sense and Googles own Pixel skin and Xperia. I would say the worst skins are LG's and Huawei's.

Security updates are very important though and of course, yes a newer version of Andorid brings some under the hood features like Doze etc. but these aren't as important as the skin and how it is executed these days I think.
[G4 General] deltadiesel:
Well everyone has their own preferences.

But I think u got it twisted. Motorola has the best skin because their is no skin...it is basicly vanilla android. They never have hardware problems

HTC is pretty disgusting. Theirs something about that feel and touch of HTC phones I can't stand. I'm not a fan of their overlay and HTC makes some bad phones, more intended as low end phones

Sony is horrible as well. Next to no ROM support on most devices. But the phones are great hardware and quality wise

LG makes mediocre phones. The overlay is quite ugly as well. Hardware issues are common

Samsung is okay. But there's a reason I don't use then. I cant stand the physical button to go back to main screen and they are made to break. This is the most common phone in repair for cracked screens. I believe it is a side business for Samsung

Pixel ive never tried

My preference is

1. Motorola

2. LG

3. Samsung

4. Sony

5 . HTC

In terms of quality

1. Sony

2. Motorola

3. Samsung

4. HTC

5. LG

I've owned an Acer phone. Pretty bad hardware.....never a software issue. You get what you get .....and you'll never get an update

Huwaiwei ZTE are worse than Acer....and Acer doesn't even make many phones. They are simply bottom of the list any way you put it

Motorola or LG for me

I may try a Chinese manufacturer one day though
[G4 General] Xdekker:
My mom has the Mate S and the hardware is superb, I would say still to this day one of the best built phones ever. However, the software is a nightmare, no updates at all and the worst thing is, no Rom support because of Huawei. That's why I almost always go with LG or Sony, they have the best rom support right after the Pixel/nexus phones.
[G4 General] tmihai20:
I have to disagree, but LG updates are quite irregular. Wait until you phone won't be the last released phone from LG and you will see updates will not come as before. Even the process of getting the updates over all regions is not ok. I had a G Pad 8.3 and I still have my G4 H815. I think Samsung has a very good update program. HTC has almost the same problems as LG with updates, I had an HTC before my Nexus 5 (which I used before my G4).

I cannot say much about Sony or the others. I am looking forward to Nokia though.
[G4 General] Xdekker:
Tbh everybody but Apple and Google (Pixel) suck these days. Even Sony kinda starts to slack, they are the ones who wanted to support the xperia Z3 untill 7.X but they couldn't because of stupid Google regulations with the Graphics, basically the 801 was too old. I think Sony was the last OEM that actually cared. Oh yeah and that short period where Motorola was owned by Google, but right now Lenovo is obv. following Chinese tradition, if you want the latest you gotta pay for it.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emin3ms:
Hi,

I have a bootloop issue (I was using LOS official and it crashed when I answered a call) and when I try booting in recovery mode it just starts normally.

I do the Power + Vol down until I see the LG logo then release both for a short time and hold them again but it starts the LOS bootanimation..

What I am doing wrong ?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htr5:
The G4 has a really stupid way of entering the recovery. I couldn't get in for a while too. Try again making sure you are actually pressing the buttons together at the same time. That means having just one click. They have to be clicked down at the exact same time.

Also, the instructions you've seen (first Google result) may not be the best. This is what I do WITH a custom recovery (TWRP).

1. Power off completely

2. Holding power and volume down at the exact same time until the lg logo appears.

3. Continue holding the volume down button but release the power button for a second.

4. Press and hold power and volume down again.

5. When asked if you want to wipe the device, select yes. This won't wipe the device but will take you to TWRP (if you installed it). Otherwise, it wipes the device.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oari0909:
Same Issue here, I was on Genisys opened whatsapp cuause I had a new message and phone rebooted.

after that it just stay on LG logo.

I followed your steps and got to the option of factory reset but after I hit ok with the power button phone just reboots back to the LG logo.

I think mine is the genuine bootloop issue. :rolleyes:
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emin3ms:
Ok after a few tries I managed to do it this way :)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jirrick:
Hi guys, today I've managed to brick my G4 so it doesnt boot neither to recovery nor fastboot nor download mode. It just loops the LG logo as you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gm0dh6bLp4

Any ideas how to recover?

Thank you
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htr5:
If you don't remember doing anything that might have caused this, then it may be the LG G4 bootloop bug.

I'd put the phone in a zip lock back, in the freezer overnight and then back up all my data as quickly as possible. You're phone may be dead.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jirrick:
I'm sure I've bricked it while flashing LOS (regular dirty flash of new weekly like i do nearly every week), this time just went something wrong...

As far as I can tell from some YT videos my reboot pattern is different from regular G4 bootloop
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jirrick:
Thx for your replies, I managed to revive my phone after whole day of tinkering. Had to overcome some issues so I've posted the solution: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73539738&postcount=1
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eldpool:
OH MY GOD. It still doesn't work, I am tired and out of my mind, I tried many many times, Idk what else to do. I will try again and again but I am just becoming more mad instead of fixing the problem. DAMMIT
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eldpool:
Hmm, wait, ok. I did it finally, you just need to press them simultaneously and then when LG logo appears just release the power button for literally 1 second and then press and continue to hold both of buttons. That's it.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alieo:
This actually worked!!!!....The 1 Second is crucial in the process, I did it on my first try after reading post
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esinior:
I did the procedure but it went to a page that said clear your phone or not! Just it, and there is no option to clean cache partition or any other
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] matlear:
Does anybody else use permissive mode on android ? For me I have issues waking from sleep. I have to press the power button lots of times to get the screen on. Anybody have a fix ? I want to use permissive mode to reduce screen burn.. I'm using tiles to activate permissive mode and I'm on stock android 8.0 non beta.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Abaddon:
you meant immersive not permissive right? because you were talkin about gettin rid of the navbar and statusbar to avoid screen burn ins
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] LosAngeles:
Same issue for me, enabling immersive mode on Oreo causes an issue when waking up the device if it has been sleeping for awhile. I have been using immersive mode since paranoid android on an old nexus device so using the phone without it enabled feels awkward.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] coolhandz:
I had the same issue. Tried to reverse immersive mode in terminal emulator, but got an error. Ended up just flashing stock once again.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] darryltaleon:
What I did was tick the "System Awake" to ON in developer settings. Works like a charm every morning. Now and I can finally turn off my alarm without wanting to literally throw it across my room since the device wouldn't turn on after a long night:D.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
Could somebody provide us with a full eMMC backup of a 16GB and 32GB model so that we can build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it to unbrick our devices with QFIL/QPST?

(this issue is rather specific, you cannot access the phone by ADB,fastboot or LGUP, but Windows recognizes it as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 so it's fixable with the appropriate files)
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
I have no idea to make such a backup since I cannot access the device's emmc in Linux.

I've used this method on another phone but there I could access the emmc directly as external storage by using a key combo on boot.

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[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
here

it's for another chipset, but the same process applies for all chipsets.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
Can't help you with that one then since I'm running Linux on all my machines. Too bad, I wouldn't mind having a complete backup.

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[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gogozombiii:
Maybe the people with Linux machines and free time would wanna try this?

https://androidforums.com/threads/guide-how-to-create-partition-xml-gpt.1125433/
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
[MENTION=7732448]Nicktheprofessor[/MENTION] Try checking this out, if you got the time! You would help the community out a ton!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
I'll need an OTG storage device to do this. I can backup the entire thing using dd but it can't be written to the internal storage (for obvious reasons, it would then backup the backup and the backup of the backup and so on).

If I could access it on the computer or send it to the computer then that would work but I'm not aware of any way to do that without storing it locally first (which, as previously mentioned, is impossible to do).

[EDIT] I wonder if it's possible to use adb root pull from TWRP to pull /dev/mmcblk0, I'll try that after cleaning it up. If that works then it's a piece of cake to do this on any phone. [/EDIT]
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
OK, so I managed to do a complete backup via adb pull /dev/mmcblk0

For future reference, this is the easiest way:

From a fastboot boot twrp:

adb root

adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img

Now, that's 13GB worth of data that you don't need, I can give you a part table on this (using part) or whatever you need but It's a bit too big to upload as is.

I can run an emulator and mount it as is and that works too but all I can extract from there is data.

Now, shutting down your device and inserting your USB cable while holding vol + AND vol- seems to mount emmc as portable storage, that should mean that you can dd the entire thing right onto the device?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
Maybe? Not entirely sure if the dd method could work since this kind of hardbrick literally bricks your phone if you don't have the right files. Great job on the backup though! Mind telling me the steps for dd-ing the entire thing onto my device?

Or better, create partition.xml and extract & upload rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml so that I can use myself as a test dummy. :D

its a guide for linux systems, hopefully you can help us get one step closer to fixing our devices!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
Yeah, that doesn't help since it's made for extracting a partition.xml from a .KDZ where these partition files exist.

In a copy of your disk that doesn't exist, there isn't a file to copy and paste into that.

I can do the partition table and partition sectors if you want that but without knowing what is actually needed (as in the source code in the tool used to fix the device) I can't really help.

I'll check if i can put a device in that state and see what happens with the emmc connection.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
Get the partition table and partition sectors, that's a start! (even though I got no clue how to continue after that :D)

Do you mean the source code of QPST/QFIL? That's a rather impossible task though :(
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
I'm talking about the source code of the programming tool but I might not need that either if i can just examine it on my own and I have one of those devices on hand come tuesday.

I'm fairly confident that I can build a programmer to rewrite the emmc with whatever I want it to if i can just get a hold of the system calls.

Do you want to work together on this? It seems to me that it would be worthwhile even in the long run as QC are unlikely to change this procedure.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
Absolutely! Even though I don't have the necessary knowledge with Android/Linux, I do have basic Windows knowledge. I'd be glad to help out the community as a whole!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
bump!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramo13:
i just found for the nexus 5x the lg tot firmware u can use it to make the partition.xml

lg h791 16g

drive.google.com/uc?id=0B89Fk5GHkvZqb3I3bV9rTksxZFE&export=download

lg h791 32g

cloud.mail.ru/public/G1bp/vhoVk1MwW

i used BoardDiag to extract the frimware

drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw1P9EP0d9nZY0FUall1VWVvc0k/view

and here is how to build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it

youtube.com/watch?v=BmAuzbG9re4

now we need prog emmc firehose 8992.mbn to use with QFIL/QPST

i hope u can find a solution i'm stuck with a dead nexus 5x for the moment
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youxiaojie:
do you need h798 16G version dd image? if you need I can dump to you

---------- Post added at 09:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:40 AM ----------

adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img

this command does not work

first there no device /dev/mmcblk0 but in /dev/block/mmcblk0 second adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img does not work.

F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload>adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img

adb: error: remote object '/dev/mmcblk0' does not exist
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicktheprofessor:
You need to reboot to a TWRP (or whatever recovery that supports unencrypted storage) that supports unencrypted devices before you attempt it.

You have to do this through fastboot boot recovery.img and not through flashing it. You are correct about /dev/block/mmcblk0 though. My apologies for the confusion caused by that.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youxiaojie:
I got it

after formatting data partition, I removed whole disk encrypt and success run "adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img" command.

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bpcvqV1

and do I used "adb push emmc.img /dev/block/mmcblk0" to recover whole emmc when my phone soft bricked?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qb74:
file is not working, getting a error when unzipping it
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youxiaojie:
https://mega.nz/#!Oo9DxJyL!rzFl_s2ie1frCr79TpYTYKoeXNwg78d5dc-a71bkInE

try this again
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] invrao:
Is it file related to programmer firehose 8992?

Any progress?

My phone also got struck in 9008 mode

Please help, if there is a way to recover
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] darkensx:
i came across this: PAGE in my search on downgrades on OC1 bootloader now before you yell at me bootloader is locked

did verizon only update the bootloader while on 5.0.1 lollipop seems stupid to only update a bootloader but hey who am i? the mention page does not say boot loader has to be xxx. any body want to test this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ibuprophen:
I think it can but, I can't remember if the catch was only if the device was updated via OTA and not via Odin but, I could be wrong in which one or even at all.

Maybe [MENTION=4310299]bilgerryan[/MENTION] can check it out and clarify this... :cool:

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] darkensx:
all i know is mine after i rooted on OC1 (still on OC1) it boots saying samsung with a unlocked padlock and custom under it.. does that mean its unlocked? :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ibuprophen:
That all depends on what you had done with it.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] darkensx:
rooted it via wondershare (mobilego) method after it rebooted i powered it off and put in a att sim upon powering on the phone the mention screen appeared. i got the phone used from someone not sure if it had anything done to it but it did have a straight talk sim in it if that means anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ibuprophen:
then all you did was successfully root it.

The lock will indicate for root as well as for Unlocking it.

I use the Wondershare Software too and it's a great tool for rooting.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ninjasinabag:
This'll fail, there is no way to downgrade from OC1.

Someone did manage to fake the way the aboot reads the software so you can push a kernel in place of the stock kernel. He just never released exactly what was done.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] NIKKG:
Hi everyone, is there a way to turn on wifi hotspot using stock firmware? It keeps saying checking for verification. I got mines unlocked and using Tmobile using B170 security update. Thanks in advance.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Search for hotspot and you should find how in another thread in the Ascend XT section.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] NIKKG:
I can't find anything, wasn't there an app you download and you change the setting on it and it lets you bypass the verification check? Its been a while since I used this phone.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] askmen0w:
Mine is rooted, so i just bought Titanium Backup Pro and froze com.android.huawei.Entitle, and that was it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] afflaq:
Hey guys, it's been a few years since I've been active in the android community but hoping someone may be able to help me out, I'm in a little bit of a weird predicament.

Girlfriend has an s8 with fingerprint functionality setup, and has forgotten her pin, but can still use the phone normally through fingerprint reader..but we're trying to figure out some method of changing the pin or doing a backup / restore that doesn't require the pin as shes concerned about an update or whatnot that's going to require it.

She doesn't have samsungs find my phone stuff setup so that isn't not an option I dont believe as I think it requires a pin to install so installing after she's forgotten it is a no go.

Is there any way to backup everything so she can do a backup / restore that isn't going to require a pin? She's not opposed to a backup or restore just doesn't want to lose data and preferably not configuration.

As I said, right now she can get into the phone via fingeprint, just trying to figure out some way to make sure we can do this without locking her up somehow. Halp?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] partcyborg:
adb backup?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] jadaress1:
If the phone reboots or gets restarted, the pin will have to be put in even if fingerprint is in place.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] senor360:
What is she needing to backup? Contacts? Google account does that for you. Photos / videos? Google Photos app takes care of that, unlimited storage and free. If she has files downloaded, BOX or any other site like that allows you to upload and store there. If there is a true concern regarding the pin, move these items and then do a factory reset of the phone, and start fresh. Anybody agree?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azhar_Fahry:
hi , as u can tell by the tittle , i just flashed Paranoid Andrid 7.2.3 which does not support F2fs. i realize it in the middle of flashing that my phone is on F2fs format not ext4 , now its stuck on oneplus logo , but i can still boot into TWRP. and when i open file manager on TWRP , there's nothing in there , tried to use my laptop too , yet still nothing there. any chance i recover my data plz or fix my phone ? thxx
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJohnson1988:
Try the "fsck.f2fs" command from TWRP's terminal, with the -a and/or -f arguments. I've never needed to use it, but it's worth a try.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azhar_Fahry:
thx for ur reply . any chance of my data will be back ? *bad englsh
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJohnson1988:
No idea. But it can't hurt to try. ;)

As for the device (partition) names, for our device:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 (cache)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 (system)

/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (data)

Make sure to unmount these partitions before you run any commands on them.

Let me know how it goes for you. :)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azhar_Fahry:
but how about the internal ?

update : tried to use fsck.f2fs but it says Error : Device not specified
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJohnson1988:
Internal data is a subdirectory of /data. So by targeting the data partition, you are also implicity targeting your personal data as well.

---------- Post added at 07:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:18 AM ----------

Specify the data partition as mentioned above.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azhar_Fahry:
yep , done , it fix my phone , but i think i still lost all the files :(
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJohnson1988:
Darn. Sorry to hear that.

Maybe someone else here has more information.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azhar_Fahry:
aight thx so much for ur help btw :D at least i studied from my own mistake
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mahensty:
hello guys recently i had using the 3.1 black diamond can i make it to vista, i had seen in the site it is possible can any one guide me how make my t-mobile mda cellphone wm6 to vista

thanking you

mahendra