Unbrick Phone & Fixing Rom Firmware

bretthutton

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Brief: Back up All - Contacts (remove sim card)
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Boot into Recovery Mode
1. Take out 'Battery'
2. Put in 'Battery'
3. Hold down 'Home button' and press 'Power-on' (keys of you phone model to get you into recovery)
4. Keep holding down the 'Home button' or ‘key of you phone model to get you into recovery’ until the cyanogenmod recovery menu pops up (it takes a while.)

Wipe Data/Factory Reset
1. Press the 'volume' down to 'Wipe Data/Factory Reset'
2. Then Press the 'volume' up and choose 'yes' and press the 'camera button'

Menu will come back up...
Select 'reboot system now'
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Now start write-up below

First Install Driver on PC:
'LGAndroidDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0_All_Win7' (works on all windows)
To install by ‘Double click’ on driver download (Xp may require a similar driver search mediafire.com)


Download Android Version Flash Recovery to PC/Laptop ‘extract’ to PC
1. Via PC/Laptop USB ‘add the update.zip (this may be called something else ‘Rename’ to ‘update.zip’ for your Version Rom firmware) to Main directory of SD Card


To Manually Access SD Card
1. Boot into "Recovery'
2. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mounts and storage' select
3. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mount /sdcard'
4. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mount USB Storage' select
DON'T PRESS 'UNMOUNT' just stay in that screen!
You now can access your SD Card from your PC/Laptop
5. Add update.zip to main directoy of SD Card

Now -
Hit your phones back button twice select 'power off'


Download this Link to PC: KDZ Updater Europe Open.zip 144mb


Put your phone into Download Mode
1. Take out 'Battery'
2. Put in 'Battery'
3. Hold down 'volume down' and Hit 'Power-on' button
4. The screen should display 'Download mode'
5. Plug in 'USB'

Extract KDZ Updater Europe Open.zip to your PC/Laptop
1. Run 'kdz_fw_upd'
2. Choose '3gqct' as the 'Type'
3. Choose 'Diag' as the mode
4. Click 'File icon' and select 'Europe Open+Fastboot.kdz'
then hit ‘Launch Software Update’


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If you find your USB Locks on 'Launch Software Upate'

1. Boot into "Recovery'
2. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mounts and storage' select
3. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mount /sdcard'
4. Using 'Volume button' scroll down to 'mount USB Storage' select
DON'T PRESS 'UNMOUNT' just stay in that screen!

While sitting there....

1. Run 'kdz_fw_upd' from PC/Laptop
2. Choose '3gqct' as the 'Type'
3. Choose 'Diag' as the mode
4. Click 'File icon' and select 'Europe Open+Fastboot.kdz'
then hit ‘Launch Software Update’

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Now make a flash recovery.bat file for ‘Recovery Image’
1. Open notepad ‘add’ below in it and change ‘img’ to what every img you using….

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery_clockwork_3.0.1.9_swift.img
fastboot reboot

3. Save Notepad as ‘flash recovery.bat’
4. Open 'CMD' within folder with ‘Usb connected’ to phone
5. Type ‘flash recovery’ Hit ‘Enter’ key
As soon as phone reboots hold the buttons down to put your phone model into ‘recovery mode’ (search ‘fastboot recovery mode’ for your ‘phone model’ buttons)

NOTE BELOW BUTTONS MAY VERY BETWEEN PHONE MODELS

Now to install the Rom
1. Press the 'volume' down until 'install zip from sdcard' is selected
2. Then press the 'camera button'
3. Then press the 'camera button' on 'apply /sdcard/update.zip'
4. Then Press the 'volume' up and choose 'yes' and press the 'camera button'
Done..

Menu will come back up...
Hit your 'Back button' and select 'reboot system now'



by Stryker’s Lounge AUS
 
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