[Q] Restoring apps gone wrong - now rebooting constantly? plz help

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

Hi there
I've unfortunately gotten a faulty devices and I'm suppose to get it switched with a new device. (another story about not being able to make calls, scrathing sound etc)

I've rooted my phone and it worked flawlessly, but today I wanted to un-root and would install the apps i've removed with root explorer. Therefore I downloaded a system/ dump and tried restoring the "app" directory in system/ with root explorer. This resulted in random force closes
Then I used "adb" su to copy all the app files from sdcard (where I copied the files from the dump) to the system/app directory. After a while it was done and I type reboot... [Bricked?]

Now the phone keeps rebooting. Getting the LG logo with sound and afterwards the LG logo with progress bar... then rebooting...

I need help

mirsalimov · Mar 15, 2011

djkoch said:
Hi there
I've unfortunately gotten a faulty devices and I'm suppose to get it switched with a new device. (another story about not being able to make calls, scrathing sound etc)

I've rooted my phone and it worked flawlessly, but today I wanted to un-root and would install the apps i've removed with root explorer. Therefore I downloaded a system/ dump and tried restoring the "app" directory in system/ with root explorer. This resulted in random force closes
Then I used "adb" su to copy all the app files from sdcard (where I copied the files from the dump) to the system/app directory. After a while it was done and I type reboot...

Now the phone keeps rebooting. Getting the LG logo with sound and afterwards the LG logo with progress bar... then rebooting...

I need help

Try to hard reset, turn off your phone press volume - and power.

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

Thanks for the response... When I press power+volume down, the "unpacking box with android person" appears for a 20 seconds or so... the reboots and I'm back to rebooting constantly

When I try pressing volume down and home key/returnkey I can get in to S/W update mode, but I cant get the ADB to work?

Other suggestions?

gensplejs · Mar 15, 2011

That's why its a bad idea to delete stock apps in the first place when we don't have custom recovery yet.

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

gensplejs said:
That's why its a bad idea to delete stock apps in the first place when we don't have custom recovery yet.

It wasnt a problem when deleting them, and the phone was alright... it was when restoring through ADB it went wrong... I need a suggestion to get it fixed not an "I-told-you-so"

gensplejs · Mar 15, 2011

Yeah... sorry... i was kinda an ass.
But sadly I'm all out of ideas.

Maybe if we had a service manual (not user manual)

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DocRambone · Mar 15, 2011

Can you connect to phone by adb?
You need to clear dalvik cache.

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

Hi Doc
No... unfortunately I cant get ADB to work....
I can get into S/W update mode, but ADB doesnt work. I can get the Factory reset to begin too, but it just gets into the reboot circle again.

If there was just a way to get into ADB mode I could push every single file again

Damn... I hope it isn't bricked for good

xmoo · Mar 15, 2011

If HR doesn't work. Just return for warrenty.

Cause if it reboots that a corrupted boot.img
Try to see if you can get alist of apps installed on phone.
If superuser.apk is not in there, return it for warrenty.

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

In one of the reboots I think I had a glimse of a connection thru ADB acouple of times. I had approx. 10 seconds before rebooting again.

Did a list... and guess I saw a dir called "root" but didnt have time to get into the system/app directory...

If we can't find a solution I think I'll try to return the phone and hope for a new one without any question asked

londahl · Mar 15, 2011

Have you tried putting it in sw update mode and running the LG update tool?

http://www.lg.com/dk/support/mc-support/mobile-phone-support.jsp?countryCd=dk

Might do the trick

djkoch · Mar 15, 2011

Yes I've tried the LG update tool. It says it has a new update, but the current firmware version doesn't show, and when I'm trying to do the update It aborts and says that the phone cannot be updated...

I just tried the Factory Reset and you can abort the reset when the "unpacking box" is showing by pressing the home key. Then you get into the 3e recovery menu... But there no way to select an option. Would have tried to wipe cache partition and data/factory reset. In the text it only says "formatting DATA:..., Formatting CACHE:..., Formatting MISC:..."

mirsalimov · Mar 15, 2011

djkoch said:
Yes I've tried the LG update tool. It says it has a new update, but the current firmware version doesn't show, and when I'm trying to do the update It aborts and says that the phone cannot be updated...

I just tried the Factory Reset and you can abort the reset when the "unpacking box" is showing by pressing the home key. Then you get into the 3e recovery menu... But there no way to select an option. Would have tried to wipe cache partition and data/factory reset. In the text it only says "formatting DATA:..., Formatting CACHE:..., Formatting MISC:..."

There in no way to restore you phone now because we don't have any tools that's work with optimus 2x.
Bring it back to retailer and say that phone is just not booting and you want a replacement.

djmcnz · Mar 18, 2011

Edit: Well... discount the advice below for the time being... I've found myself in the same position and the commands below don't work.

My phone is also now useless...

I replied to your thread over at MoDoCo, and although the thread has gone off track it does have Paul's attention.

djkoch said:
Yes I've tried the LG update tool. It says it has a new update, but the current firmware version doesn't show, and when I'm trying to do the update It aborts and says that the phone cannot be updated...

I just tried the Factory Reset and you can abort the reset when the "unpacking box" is showing by pressing the home key. Then you get into the 3e recovery menu... But there no way to select an option. Would have tried to wipe cache partition and data/factory reset. In the text it only says "formatting DATA:..., Formatting CACHE:..., Formatting MISC:..."

Oh dear.

I tend to agree, whilst it will be recoverable it could be very time consuming.

A factory reset will wipe cache and dalvik cache, so that's not your problem.

Neither is boot.img your problem, that will be intact.

However, if you can't get a console (via adb or terminal) you're in a difficult position.

Try issuing the 'stop' command in your brief adb window to see if you can preserve the shell.

Code:

$ su
# stop

If you can then try and mount /system rw

If you can do that then you can possibly self recover... by carefully and selectively adding files to /system/app/, rebooting and trying, again and again.

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