yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
I have a GT540 stuck at the LG animation. I had Cyanogen 6.1.1 which I didn't really like (was having some big issues with it), so I flashed a 2.1 ROM and now I'm stuck.

I have tried:

* disabling LGE Modem in device manager, rebooted laptop and phone, reconnect then flash

* booting boot into fastboot mode - screen does not go black, stays stuck at lg logo. Fastboot commands leave <waiting for device>

* using ADB while phone stuck, error "device not found" - same in download mode

* booting into safe mode with home+power button, phone stops at animation still

* flashing using KDZ in all 3 modes both when the phone is stuck and also in download mode

* flashing using the KP500 updater as described at hxxp://android.modaco.com/index.php?showto...t&p=1394990

* flashing using LG mobile support tool recovery option

* reinstalling LG drivers

* flashing with phone in download mode through LG Mobile Support tool in recovery mode, error "No software update available for this device"

* connecting to the phone through hyperterminal to do a factory reset then flashing

* some people are reporting this problem with a corrupt SD card. Removed SD card, still having this problem

* removing battery, connecting USB cable (displaying phone with arrow screen) and flashing in all 3 KDZ modes

* booting download mode by removing battery and holding VOL- while plugging cable in

I can't find ANY more ideas no matter how hard I search. I've been trying to fix this for 2 days solid now and I seem to have tried everything.

Halp! :(
[GT540 Optimus General] mejack03:
@above

Did u tried to flash Quarx black ROM ?
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
I've flashed Vodafone 2.1 official, Baltic 2.1 official, French 2.1 official, a 2.1 with fastboot, and Clockwork Recovery 2.1... also out.kdz as mentioned in this thread hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825173&page=3

I'll try the Quarx ROM now but I don't like my chances :)

EDIT: out.kdz in the thread above is the same ROM as in the quarx black rom thread here hxxp://modmymobile.com/forums/527-lg-androids/557934-gt540-rom-black-system-rom-quarx.html so yes, I've already tried that ROM.

I've logged a service request with LG but I REALLY want to get it working without waiting a week or two for them to get to it...

thanks

EDIT #2: I CAN access the phone using Hyperterminal on COM12 (tried a hard reset that way) but I have no idea what commands exist or anything through that terminal...
[GT540 Optimus General] mejack03:
When you tired to flash a ROM with fastboot what happened? still stucked @ LG logo
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
I can't do anything with fastboot - if I hold camera+power it won't give me a black screen, it just gets stuck at the same spot (last frame of the LG animation, white LG logo)

I tried running fastboot commands in this state but I just get <waiting for device>

EDIT: I've just re-flashed the quarx ROM but getting the same problem, camera+power hangs at the LG logo and fastboot reboot just sits there with <waiting for device>

I was wondering, is there any way at all to install software through a hyperterminal? This seems to be the only connection method that works (adb doesn't work either). I followed these instructions to do a factory reset and it worked:

It didn't fix the problem, but I was able to connect and successfully perform the reset so at least that connection works... Maybe I could erase the system and then try flashing in cs_emergency mode or something? :confused:
[GT540 Optimus General] mejack03:
1. Remove battery,sim,mmc coonect ur phone to pc using USB cable

2. Press Volume down + power when it boots

3. It should go to download mode now

tell me whether it is going to download mode or not
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
It goes into download mode when I do that, I've tried flashing in DIAG, EMERGENCY and CS_EMERGENCY modes this way with no success.
[GT540 Optimus General] pepi74:
20B FAST

Try this: flash it in normal mode with KDZ updater.

Then when flash is finished enter in fastboot mode ( in this ROM flashboot is not black screen, it is blue screen with white letters) so you can easy see when you are enetered in fastboot.

then

fastboot -w
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
We have liftoff!

Booting the phone normally I get the LG picture, LG animation then loop at the android animation (one step further than I was getting before...)

Phone booted into blue screen fastboot mode and fastboot commands work (fastboot -w, fastboot reboot etc).

fastboot -w gives the following readout

Best of all, the phone boots and runs normally after I ran fastboot -w. ADB commands work when the phone is booted normally. But is the 'bad block' message something I should be concerned about?

So 2 things - first, should I now be able to flash it with an official 2.1 ROM? I don't really want to reinstall Cyanogen as I had a lot of minor but REALLY annoying problems with it (bad touch and haptic feedback was the worst). I would just like to flash an official 2.1 for the time being while I find a better 2.2 port. And second, can you explain what's so special about this ROM that it worked when all the others I tried (at least 10 of them), including fastboot-enabled ones, didn't?

Thanks! :D
[GT540 Optimus General] pepi74:
Best of all, the phone boots and runs normally after I ran fastboot -w. ADB commands work when the phone is booted normally. But is the 'bad block' message something I should be concerned about?

I have also two bad block but it seems that flash found them ,and skip writing to them so I think that is ok.

- first, should I now be able to flash it with an official 2.1 ROM?

You should in theory: I found that I cannot flash my LG540 with any official ROM since I flash it with fastboot rom. ( and I wrote on several forums, no one give me answer) In fact, only few users tell they can flash it without any problem, but much more have same problem like me. So if you successfully flash with original ROM, tell me about that.

And second, can you explain what's so special about this ROM that it worked when all the others I tried (at least 10 of them), including fastboot-enabled ones, didn't?

I made it at home, in peace of my room :)

I dont know what is so special, but I rearrange few official ROM into fastboot for reason I tell before in this message.
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
Well thanks again :) I am in the middle of flashing official vodafone 2.1 so I'll let you know how that pans out.

Which ROM did you modify to come up with this one? It looks like baltic I guess

EDIT: Flash with official Vodafone Australia 2.1 ROM unsuccessful. The phone loops at the Android animation (although this is still further than I was getting before), I left it for a while (15 minutes or so) in case it was a slow first boot but it's still looping.

I guess I'll flash with your ROM and use that for a while, maybe I'll stick quarx on it.

thanks for your help mate I've been trying to unbrick this phone for nearly a week
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
So I tried to install black quarx using the guide in this thread: http://modmymobile.com/forums/527-lg-androids/557934-gt540-rom-black-system-rom-quarx.html

However the ROM that it says to install first leaves my phone hanging at the LG logo again. Something you did when you made your ROM avoids this problem that all other ROMs seem to cause..

I'm going to reflash with your ROM then skip the rom step in that guide and just install the black quarx system.img over the top of your ROM... we'll see if that works!
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
looking at the screencaps for that black quarx, something tells me I need the ROM as well as the system.img for it to work.... oh well we'll see what happens :)
[GT540 Optimus General] pepi74:
That was case with me also. When I try quarx ROM I didnot have get it to work.

So I flash "my rom" then erase ALL

- fastboot -w

- fastboot erase system

- fastboot erase boot

and then reboot phone

fastboot reboot

Enter in fastboot mode, and flash it with quarkx ROM and should work without problem. But since black theme Quarx use i so dark for me I found it unusable, And ROM is not heavly modified so difference between them and stock ROM is not big. So for that reason I go back to "my" rom and stick to it...
[GT540 Optimus General] pepi74:
I was modify UK ROM , BALTIC ROM, and OPEN EUROPE ROM ( you have it)

Baltic rom was smallest but have strange symbols when listing applications for remove ( white squares) . Also many other have that so I remove it from my phone. Beside that all was ok.

UK ROM was also ok, but have random FC on one application, so I finally flash it with OPEN EUROPE ROM, change application that have FC and now is all ok.

Battery have about 4 days of "life", phone doesn't slow down and I am happy with that ROM.

Yes, that is error I get ( but you go further then me, I stuck on LG logo) :)
[GT540 Optimus General] CowboyDan:
Hey mate just noticed something tonight when I left the house (and got off wifi), mobile data doesn't work? I did a factory reset and it still doesn't work, double checked the settings and it should be fine...

Does it work on your phone?
[GT540 Optimus General] pepi74:
Never have any problems with mobile data. Since you noticed wifi and mobile data doesnot work together.

Look at PAN for Internet, does at end stay:

default

- last option.

It must not be empty

Option name is APN model:
[GT540 Optimus General] karabasev:
i have flashed lg gt540 with official android 2.1

i have flashed lg gt540 with official android 2.1 and i can say honestly i have do that 5 or 6 times on my phone depend of wich custom rom i have used before

NOW I CAN'T

I DON'T KNOW WHAY

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH STUCK LG LOGO

I HAVE TRAY 10 TIMES STILL I CAN'T FLASH OFFICIAL ANDROID 2.1
[GT540 Optimus General] bluefire_000:
Hi, I'm stuck at the LG screen, can't enter recovery mode and have no idea what fastboot is. so I've downloaded V20B_00 from elsewhere and I'm unable to finish the process. Is there any different between that and the you FAST version? If so can you please let me know how I can get it?

I'm flashing in emergency mode and I got Upgrade Error -

WParam: 100

LPram: 502

LOG:

12:42:07 : Launching SW update

12:42:07 : Unpacking KDZ

12:42:07 : KDZ file extraced

12:42:08 : Files were extracted.

12:42:08 : LGMobileDL Load.

12:42:08 : Port = -1

12:42:08 : Connecting to phone

12:42:18 : Check Phone mode = 2

12:42:25 : Phone type check.......

12:42:27 : LGMobileDL.DLL Loading....

12:42:27 : _SetAuthMark Fail

12:42:27 : AuthMark°¡ Á¤È®È÷ Phone¿¡ Write µÇÁö ¾Ê¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù!

12:42:27 : _SetAuthMark Fail

12:42:27 : LoadCDMAPhoneData() Error

12:42:27 : _DetachDLL Call

12:42:27 : _DetachDLL Call End

12:42:27 : Param : Path = C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\DZ_GT540AT-00-V20b-BAL-XXX-SEP-13-2010.dz

12:42:27 : Param : moduleDir =

12:42:27 : Param : waitTime = 33000

12:42:27 : Param : UsbHighSpeed = 1

12:42:27 : Param : PhoneMode = 2

12:42:27 : Param : BinVersion = V20B_00

12:42:27 : Param : AuthMark = 21332

12:42:27 : Call fn_StartUpgrade

12:42:51 : CDMA: wParam = 100, lParam = 502

12:42:51 : Step : Upgrade Error2 - Error Code : 502

12:42:51 : ResetStartInfo() Call

12:42:51 : _DetachDLL Call

12:42:51 : _DetachDLL Call End

12:42:51 : FreeLibrary Call

12:42:51 : FreeLibrary Call End

12:42:51 : ResetStartInfo() Call End

12:42:53 : ===FINISHED===

12:43:44 : OnModelDllMsg(OnMsgFromModelDll-CDMA) delete m_pLGCyonUpdate

Thanks
[GT540 Optimus General] Vinthad:
LG gt540

Hi, I have the same problem, my phone was working fine until when I tried to upgrade to a higher version android and it fot stuck and took a long time so had to unplug it from the USB. Then when I tried to on it it was getting stuck at the white LG logo. Only once I was able to get it to the download mode, unfortunately I did not know what to do after that tried to plug it into my system but nothing happened, so just removed the battery after that and still standing at the same place. I teied as instrucked but nothing happenes. Please help me with this.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] oronmozes:
hello u all,

I have a problem that I just cant update my HTC Willdfire 2.1 version to 2.2 and I need help.

I purches my phone in a phone shop and it is an unlock device.

I already contact HTC support and gave them my s/n number and here is what they told me. my headset origin is from hong kong and my softwer is from europe and becuse of that I cant update. if I want to update I need to send it to them and with a small fee they will do it for me.

I most say that I rooted my Buzz 'cuse it didnt supprot my languge.

I think that one way for me to get the update is to undo the root and restore it am I right? is there any other way? how can I do it? pls help me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justrelax:
How do I know if my EXT Partition is working??

i followed the steps perfectly..& ,y 16Gb sd card have 2 partition 1.5GB EXT4 - 13GB FAT32

but im not seeing a different with my internal memory space...its the same

i feel like its the same with out the EXT partition.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justrelax:
plz guys help me....

i needed more internal storage to install application...so i found a topic talking about making SD card 2 partition 1 EXT & the Other normal Fat32..i understod that the EXT partition will be as internal memory & i followed the steps

after flashing the NAND i didnt find any different in my internal memory storage & after installing some application my internal memory got low...so i used APP2SD but as u all know some application cant be moved to SD.

so plz i want to know where is my EXT4 1.5GB partition & how can i know if its working or not ? :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ClydeB1:
Does your rom you are flashing use data2ext or app2sd? If the rom itself isn't set up to recognize the partition I doubt you can just add a partition.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justrelax:
i was using MDJ FroYo Revolution v.2.3 [A2SD+][RMNET][Kernel: MDJ S10.2 OC]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823491

but my memory got low tooo fast from a little application....so im now using a smaller NAND

CleanDROID v1.30 - Super Clean [FROYO+Cyanogen][Kernel GL v1]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=917590 just to get more free space
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ClydeB1:
I haven't tried either of those so can't comment. The one I'm using certainly recognises my partition and I have plenty of "internal" memory.

I know most recommend not going above 1gb for the partition as larger ones can cause a problem. Try reformatting the partition and resize it to 1gb and see if that helps.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] justrelax:
thank you :) ill try another NAND

can u tell me ROM r u using?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ClydeB1:
Link is in my signature ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] khmerkid:
found this on youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_YgoqQkrvU
[Galaxy Tab General] Phone_Junkie:
Interesting but would like to see more!
[Galaxy Tab General] njackson:
You can say that again ... more is right
[Galaxy Tab General] Justin^Tan:
hell, at least there's a glimpse of hope

i'm patient enough to see it fully implemented on my tab ^^
[Galaxy Tab General] ayman07:
Oh wow that's amazing! Lets hope we get some more info on this!

Edit...

This video is probably fake. It could just be a movie, kinda like what Motorola was doing at CES. If you look closely it doesn't even look like his finger touches the screen which could mean the movie is playing and if he touches the screen the on screen controls would come up....hmmmm.

From the Tab.

www.twitter.com/ayman07
[Galaxy Tab General] AlpineM3:
Talk about a c**k tease!

Finally we are.getting somewhere!!!!! More more more
[Galaxy Tab General] Justin^Tan:
LOL, that would explain why the vid is only 5 sec ^^

somehow if people managed to make honeycomb works on their tab,i'd bet they brag about it on a couple minute video just for the hell of it
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
Im fairly sure if it was real it would we would all know about it because some xda pro would of made it happen
[Galaxy Tab General] maxtcee:
those hardware heys dont even look like galaxy tab
[Galaxy Tab General] jongilluley:
Fake for sure! Theres a bounty on here of over $1000 so am pretty sure if someone had done it for real they would b on here shouting an bragging.
[Galaxy Tab General] sts_fin:
Fake. It's the demovideo running fullscreen.
[Galaxy Tab General] pawces:
Looks fake, notice the buttons on the lower left ? although it might be the galaxy tab2..
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
I dont think they are hardware buttons, but buttons on a lower status bar, isnt honey comb meant to have on screen buttons
[Galaxy Tab General] Justin^Tan:
yes, its not a button

honeycomb have that on screen button

the one that bugs me is that kinda flying finger thats not touching at all like earlier post

it is samsung galaxy tab indeed, not galaxy tab 2 or anything

since its a video running full screen, thats why he's not touching it
[Galaxy Tab General] ellokomen:
lol, it's the video from youtube.com/android, it's a fake

I have done the exactly the same on my Tab just to see how it would look like, all the buttons and that stuff.

also, look at the Icon arrangement , it's exactly the same from the video, even the Appointment and the mails and also the ninja fruit kaka icon is on the same place
[Galaxy Tab General] maxtcee:
galaxy tabs dont say samsung on it
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
Someone should have told my Tab that, because mine does! ;)

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] jlandon:
Wow! Exciting news to start off the week just right! :)
[Galaxy Tab General] Justin^Tan:
and mine also have samsung on it

maybe yours got "Apple" on it?;)
[Galaxy Tab General] natious:
i guess i have a fake one then, or maybe you do? :eek:
[Galaxy Tab General] scottprotege:
Some do, some don't. I believe all of the North American tabs do not say samsung up top but yes, a majority of them do.
[Galaxy Tab General] samspunker:
Hmm... My South Korean one doesn't have anything on top either and my friend's doesn't either. It's on the back, and on the startup screens.

Maybe the first run had them and the second didn't? I know mine is second production run because of the timing and it had to be ordered cause they were backordered.
[Galaxy Tab General] vamp6x6x6x:
This is clearly fake, but I am hoping that once the Xoom finally comes out someone will be able to port Honeycomb from it to the Galaxy Tab, because I really don't feel like waiting a year or so for samsung to decide if they want the Tab to have Honeycomb or not.
[Galaxy Tab General] Pat123:
Yup, the devs will be able to get their hands on a actual honeycomb firmware, once Xoom is out. But I guess we need AOSP or the actual source from Google to make it a bit easier to port it to Galaxy Tab!
[Galaxy Tab General] jjhiza:
I'm sure this has been posted before, but I have both the Xoom system dump .zip and the 3.0 SDK. I'm not a developer or a themer, so I'm really just reduced to using the .png images to compile mock icons and widgets. For anyone who would like to try their hand in porting 3.0 to the Galaxy Tab, please PM me, and I'll provide you with the necessary files. Below is what I've been able to do with the Galaxy Tab so far to at least mimic the Honeycomb look.
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
Looks nice.
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
So i didnt buy a Galaxy Tab, i only have a big Galaxy S?! GOD DAMN IT!

Back on topic: not sure if it is fake tbh, the blue glow around the edge of each screen is proof that its real. Haven't seen that on any home apps.

Its just strange that this hasn't been mentioned before as it seems pretty quick and responsive.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab General] fracussj4:
At first I thought it was a fake, but after that I noticed he is putting his finger closer to the screen when flipping through it as if he was touching it. Anyway, I'd like to think what he presents is true. And if it is, we will know, as he said: 'Is real and﻿ will coming soon!!!!!':)
[Galaxy Tab General] JimenezCLJ:
honeycomb on Galaxy Tab?

can anyone port the 3.0 SDK on it?

will it have all the primary functions?

i have a Tmobile tab and i only use wifi (cancelled 3G data plan) and want to know if porting the 3.0 SDK on it will still work fine even under wifi...

can someone help me?

thank you :D

-JimenezCLJ

Motorola CLiq - Blur 2.1

Samsung Galaxy Tab
[Galaxy Tab General] Digiguest:
Incorrect. Some do and some do not.
[Galaxy Tab General] jjhiza:
+1 I have the sdk, but I have absolutely zero coding ability. I know someone has to be interested enough to take a crack at porting it...
[Galaxy Tab General] RunTimeWorld:
How about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5nFapniRo
[Galaxy Tab General] jjhiza:
Sure, that looks great, but there's no device shown in the video. It's really just a 3.0 teaser trailer. As far as I know, the closest we can get to Honeycomb is to flash the CM7 Galaxy Tab Beta through Clockwork, but I'm probably going to wait until it hits ROM Manager, since the Tab is very brickable. Thanks for the link though...:)
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
That was all captured on the LG G-Slate tablet, so like most videos on YouTube, its bogus.

People have asked time and time again for a Honeycomb SDK port and no one has released anything. The first video has the hope that someone has done it, but why hasn't there been more/longer videos posted anywhere? Why haven't they announced it on here or any forums that its been done? Seems too good to be true.

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab General] vamp6x6x6x:
I agree way to big of news not to be brought up here plus their is a pretty big bounty here so u think someone would try to claim it if they were able to do anything...

And also does anyone know when google will release the source code so the devs can work on really making a honeycomb?

Also...again, I don't understand why no one has tried to make a honeycomb port for the Tab; I mean aren't their howtos on here on how to port stuff to other stuff?
[Galaxy Tab General] jjhiza:
Word is that the Tab can't support Honeycomb because it required dual core processors to run properly. I juwt grabbed what I could (Xoom system dump and the 3.0 sdk) in the hope that I could give them to a couple people, capable of doing something great. I have a friend working on it, but he just got the files so the going will be slow. I'm working on a few things from my end, but I'm not a developer, so the work is painfully slow since I'm learning on the fly...
[Galaxy Tab General] Cal-El:
The fact that Honeycomb has been ported to the HD2 as well as other devices not running dual core is enough for me. Starting tomorrow I am going to tackle this task. I have no experience in this but someone has to try. Getting tired of hearing "they say it can't be done so why bother." I will post my findings and if anyone wishes to help as I will most likely need it, please let me know. Wish me luck.
[Galaxy Tab General] vamp6x6x6x:
Well, I thank you for starting on doing this and thank your friend also...also I indeed understand that honeycomb won't run as fast on the tab as say Honeycomb on the gTab 10.1 but I have known devs around here do some awesome work and I am sure that even something for them to build on would be helpful :)

If you can really do it and are really gonna try to start tomorrow maybe you really are superman