G3 D851 hard brick or is it? Need help!!!! - G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
I seem to have really messed up my G3 and after days of research I have not been able to get anywhere with it. I've read posts of people having similar issues, but their solutions do not seem to work for me.
What I tried to do is flash the ROM, starting with TWRP. After installing TWRP and rebooting I was getting the "no command" message on the screen. I believe (this was days ago), I used ADB to remove laf and reboot the phone (for some reason I could not back it up). The phone rebooted in fastboot and it has been downhill from there.
No download mode. When normally started the phone just hangs on the LG logo. Vol- and power gets me to the "Factory data reset", but if I do that, it flashes "erasing" for a second and it goes back to the LG logo screen.
I can get to fastboot, however, any command that I enter in CMD or Linux terminal just shows up on the phone's screen and it does not do anything. Fastboot devices shows the device as "????????" in Linux and as "?" in Windows. I have tried multiple drivers for Windows.
I tried BoardDiag (3 or 4 different versions running as admin) and shorting the pins, but any time I try to run the checks, I get an error - "No response from device" or "Device was not found in dload trying flash programmer"
I also tried SmartBootDiag, but once it detects the phone, it does its checks and it disconnects the device, without giving me an option to flash anything. Looking at the logs, it does not find any anti-rollback issues.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am not sure what else to try.......
Thank you.

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[Q] RUU error 170: usb connection error

My phone's screen was broken, I could only use my phone with some tools like screenshot. Today before I was about to repair the phone, I wiped all the things (including system, I don't know what I was thinking about, I thought I was doing a factory reset) in TWRP recovery. So now the thing is tricky. I cannot boot my phone, and I don't know what is going on there because the screen is broken. I connected my phone to PC, and after typing "adb devices", I saw that device was offline(but at least there was a device listed, though it was offline instead of attched).
So I cannot use adb, I tried 4.4.3 stock RUU, but it said that "ERROR 170 USB CONNECTION ERROR". I've installed HTC Sync Manager, it couldn't detect my phone, either.
I cannot enter the recovery, either. I don't know what to do now. Wonder if anybody here could help me. Any help appreciated.:crying:
mycityofsky said:
My phone's screen was broken, I could only use my phone with some tools like screenshot. Today before I was about to repair the phone, I wiped all the things (including system, I don't know what I was thinking about, I thought I was doing a factory reset) in TWRP recovery. So now the thing is tricky. I cannot boot my phone, and I don't know what is going on there because the screen is broken. I connected my phone to PC, and after typing "adb devices", I saw that device was offline(but at least there was a device listed, though it was offline instead of attched).
So I cannot use adb, I tried 4.4.3 stock RUU, but it said that "ERROR 170 USB CONNECTION ERROR". I've installed HTC Sync Manager, it couldn't detect my phone, either.
I cannot enter the recovery, either. I don't know what to do now. Wonder if anybody here could help me. Any help appreciated.:crying:
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Finally it worked, I kept pressing volume up and power button to reboot to fastboot, then pressed volume down and power in order to recovery, now RUU worked just fine. Cheers!

Phone hardbricked after following "[Solved] Secure Boot Error" thread. What do I do?

Phone hardbricked after following "[Solved] Secure Boot Error" thread. What do I do?
I followed the one click root method, which worked out well. After that, I installed su, flashify, and twrp. I then tried installing a custom rom, but upon booting into recovery mode, I received the Secure Boot Error text. It wasn't too big of a deal since I could still take out the battery, put it back in, and boot normally.
But, after seeing this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/help-secure-boot-error-trying-to-boot-t3054977
and how simple the instructions were, I proceeded to give it a shot. I entered in the 4 commands, powered off my phone, and attempted to boot into recovery mode. But unlike before when I booted into recovery mode, nothing appeared. No lg logo, backlight power, nothing. It's acting as it would if nothing was powering it. Now I'm stuck with a bricked phone, and sincerely need some advice on where to proceed next. Could someone help me?
Oh, btw, when I plug the phone the computer, I do "the device was successfully installed" message. The phone appears in device manager, under Ports as LGE AndroidNet USB Serial Port or as LG AndroidNet Phone under devices and printers. It doesn't appear under This PC at all.
probably one of the core system partitions has a version mismatch which is the reason why your phone isnt turning on because the partition wasnt written correctly
you need to kick it into Qualcomm USB HS Loader 9008 by shorting out the testpoint, other than that your phone is gone

A bit harder than a soft brick

Hello everyone! So... I rooted my ZE551ML when I got it about a month ago and today an update pop-up from Asus shows up. So I said "what could go wrong?" .... How about everything?? Basically, I tried a bunch of different things because I could access via ADB, so I tried to unroot it with a bat file I found with a guide for that, but nothing. Now, I passed from black boot screen with white logo to white boot screen with black logo and I can't connect it with adb nor recovery mode. Is there something I can do to enter recovery? With the normal "volumeUP+power" I get nowhere. Can anybody help?
mikla90 said:
Hello everyone! So... I rooted my ZE551ML when I got it about a month ago and today an update pop-up from Asus shows up. So I said "what could go wrong?" .... How about everything?? Basically, I tried a bunch of different things because I could access via ADB, so I tried to unroot it with a bat file I found with a guide for that, but nothing. Now, I passed from black boot screen with white logo to white boot screen with black logo and I can't connect it with adb nor recovery mode. Is there something I can do to enter recovery? With the normal "volumeUP+power" I get nowhere. Can anybody help?
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hope you can access fastboot. if yes you can install recovery and ifwi files from fastboot
How do I start fastboot mode? I let it charge all night and my pc does the "device connected/disconnected" sound all of the time, but adb says no device (the drivers are ok, I tried before). I have to say that I tried to flash boot.img, droidboot.img, recovery.img and system.img. Problem is, while I was downloading those files I found 2 other methods for recover it, one was to unroot it and the other to unlock the bootloader.... And I tried. Now, I'm unable to enter recovery.
Edit: I tried this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/guide-brick-soft-hard-bricked-zenfone-2-t3284256 and for a short period of time (about a second or 2) I can see another device under the "Intel SOC" in device manager, but xFTSK cannot see the phone, even when it shows up for just a second on device manager.
Edit2: holding power down and plugging in the usb cable allows xFSTK to see my device, I put in the files and begin downloading, everything is going good but then it says
07:24:01 - XFSTK-LOG--Windriver Error: 0xC0000011, HC status: The host controller has set the Transaction Error (XactErr) bit in the transfer descriptor's status field
And from there it just starts all over again until it fails definetly.
Edit3: I'm trying the hell out of this software. I attach 2 logs to this post with relatives configurations. Still waiting for help.
Using xfstk tool
mikla90 said:
How do I start fastboot mode? I let it charge all night and my pc does the "device connected/disconnected" sound all of the time, but adb says no device (the drivers are ok, I tried before). I have to say that I tried to flash boot.img, droidboot.img, recovery.img and system.img. Problem is, while I was downloading those files I found 2 other methods for recover it, one was to unroot it and the other to unlock the bootloader.... And I tried. Now, I'm unable to enter recovery.
Edit: I tried this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/guide-brick-soft-hard-bricked-zenfone-2-t3284256 and for a short period of time (about a second or 2) I can see another device under the "Intel SOC" in device manager, but xFTSK cannot see the phone, even when it shows up for just a second on device manager.
Edit2: holding power down and plugging in the usb cable allows xFSTK to see my device, I put in the files and begin downloading, everything is going good but then it says
07:24:01 - XFSTK-LOG--Windriver Error: 0xC0000011, HC status: The host controller has set the Transaction Error (XactErr) bit in the transfer descriptor's status field
And from there it just starts all over again until it fails definetly.
Edit3: I'm trying the hell out of this software. I attach 2 logs to this post with relatives configurations. Still waiting for help.
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open Xfstk Tool and click Tab -MRD/AO/BO +MOOR Ao+CRC then go to settings under option menu - enable GP Flag Override Option and Enter value - 0x80000807 and save (OK), then choose files -
FW Dnx - dnx_fwr.bin
IFWI - ifwi.bin
OS IMAGE - droidboot_dnx.img.POS_sign.bin
AND connect phone, press begin and Xfstk tool detect the phone and install the required files and you will able to get Normal Fastboot mode and install the firmware by fastboot / Asus Flash tool / or -SDUPDATE Zip file.
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In the end, after about 20 times, XFSTK did flash what should have. Now, I'm back in business. I changed nothing, just kept trying.

bootloop'ed ZE551ML Z00A

Hi,
I somehow managed to get myself into a bootloop situation (it keeps rebooting and showing the asus logo until I shut it down). I had flashed the droidimg.img recovery.img and boot.img files from the latest official stock rom, but that seemed to not work and now I'm in a bootloop. I do not have fastboot or recovery or anything else. It's stuck at the logo and keeps rebooting.
To fix it, I tried to follow the "unbrick" guide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/thead-bricked-phone-updating-to-mm-tips-t3452785), but I can't see the MOOREFIELD device show up for long enough to even click it (only shows up for a split second under "Other Devices" section). And I can't see "Inter SOC" in device manager at all. Also, xFSTK-Downloader doesn't run (doesn't show up when I click it) at all. This is on Windows 10. I have looked at other guides and they seem to have followed the "unbrick" guide, which doesn't work for me.
Is the phone done for good or is there hope?
fengshaun said:
Hi,
I somehow managed to get myself into a bootloop situation (it keeps rebooting and showing the asus logo until I shut it down). I had flashed the droidimg.img recovery.img and boot.img files from the latest official stock rom, but that seemed to not work and now I'm in a bootloop. I do not have fastboot or recovery or anything else. It's stuck at the logo and keeps rebooting.
To fix it, I tried to follow the "unbrick" guide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/thead-bricked-phone-updating-to-mm-tips-t3452785), but I can't see the MOOREFIELD device show up for long enough to even click it (only shows up for a split second under "Other Devices" section). And I can't see "Inter SOC" in device manager at all. Also, xFSTK-Downloader doesn't run (doesn't show up when I click it) at all. This is on Windows 10. I have looked at other guides and they seem to have followed the "unbrick" guide, which doesn't work for me.
Is the phone done for good or is there hope?
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please don't make multiple thread uselessly. please read the guide properly. that question have already been answered multiple time. connect you phone to pc. turn it off by pressing power button long time. now run xfstk load files tick gpflags override. then click ok. and click begin download it will start waiting for device. now simply click power button to turn on device. xFSTK will force it into required mode and will start download. repeat steps as required

Sorta/Kinda Brick After Attempted TWRP Install - Moto G7 Play 1952-4

Ok, so I’ve run myself off the road into a deep hole and am hoping someone can help me climb out and get back onto the correct path.
I have a Motorola Moto G7 Play 1952-4 (channel). My goal is to install TWRP, and LineageOS 18.1 with GAPPS. Root is not important at the moment.
Here’s what I did:
After successfully unlocking the bootloader (thank you Motorola), I downloaded TWRP for Chanel from the TWRP.me site. My plan was to first install TWRP, then use TWRP’s install feature for LoS 18.1 and the GAPPS.
To install TWRP recovery, I followed the instructions on the TWRP site. After starting the ADB server on my Windows 10 PC and booting the phone into the stock recovery, I used “adb boot twrp-3.5.2_10-0-channel.img” to temporarily boot into TWRP recovery. I then used ADB to push TWRP.zip onto the internal SDCARD. I used TWRP’s install feature to install "twrp-installer-3.5.2_10-0-channel.zip", presumably to both slots. To the best of my memory, everything completed correctly.
BUT . . . when I powered down the phone and attempted to boot into recovery, all I got was a black screen with a small N/A in the upper left corner instead of the familiar TWRP screens. After a while, the phone booted itself into the stock U.S. Cellular Android 10 (Hell Oh - Moe Toe). I've done several power-off/power-on cycles to no avail. I am able to get to and use the stock OS.
So, like TWRP.me suggests, I figured I’d just flash it back to stock and start over. Um, nope. I can Vol-DN/Power to the bootloader menu, but “adb devices” doesn’t see the phone, preventing me from flashing anything. USB Debugging is enabled and the phone says "USB Transfer Mode: Connected". “adb devices” sees the phone while Android 10 is running, but as soon as I boot into recovery, the phone “disappears” from ADB.
The only other thing I could think to do was to use the “Rescue” function in the Lenovo/Motorola Smart Assistant. While ADB can’t see the phone, LMSC sees it just fine and I was able to rescue/reinstall the stock OS successfully, or so LMSC said. Unfortunately, LMSC doesn’t seem to fix whatever is wrong with the recovery. Interestingly, “N/A” no longer appears after Vol-DN/Power and select Recovery Mode, the black screen now says “bad key”, followed a little while later by the Android logo with a “!” in the middle of the screen and “No command” below it.
And that’s the hole I now reside in. Despite considerable searching/reading here at XDA, I'm at a total loss for what to do next.
SOOOO, I’m hoping someone can help me:
1. Fix the N/A black screen
2. Get into a mode that ADB can see
3. Properly install TWRP
Thank you in advance,
Tenaya
Did you flash the copy-partitions.zip while in TWRP?
Maybe you could borrow some ideas from the official install instructions for LineageOS.
Install LineageOS on channel | LineageOS Wiki
wiki.lineageos.org
I had some strange intermittent USB connectivity issues with a few Moto G7 Plus devices with my main laptop, but was fine connecting on a 12 year old desktop computer. So perhaps you could check to see if adb connects on another machine. Only other idea I have is to somehow flash back to stock again with fastboot.
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zpunout,
Thank you for your response.
zpunout said:
Did you flash the copy-partitions.zip while in TWRP?
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No, I didn't know I needed to; nothing about that is mentioned by TWRP.me.
This is unknown territory for me, but your question sparks a thought for me. I wonder if 1) The stock recovery is in the "other" slot, and 2) there is some way to boot from it. That could be a way to sidestep the ADB devices problem I'm having?
zpunout said:
So perhaps you could check to see if adb connects on another machine.
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At the moment, I have no way to do that. I don't think the USB connection is the culprit, ADB "sees" the phone just fine while the phone is in the stock OS, just not in recovery (EDL?.
zpunout said:
Only other idea I have is to somehow flash back to stock again with fastboot.
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That's my current plan, but FASTBOOT won't flash anything while ADB devices won't/can't see the phone. I'm hoping someone has a workaround of some sort for that.
Tenaya
Hi, first of all lets set some things straight, you are experiencing a Boot Loop, in other words a software brick. (Soft Brick) now luckily these are fairly simple to fix. Sorry to break it to you but the N/A Screen won't disappear, that used to be the Blue/Yellow Motorola Splash Screen, but since you unlocked your phone it'll only show N/A but thats okay there are tools that can help you customize this and change it later on.
Now why is it on a boot loop you may ask, well that is because there is no more operating system to load in. But worry not, try to get into your bootloader, and try to connect adb through there.
Tenaya43 said:
Ok, so I’ve run myself off the road into a deep hole and am hoping someone can help me climb out and get back onto the correct path.
I have a Motorola Moto G7 Play 1952-4 (channel). My goal is to install TWRP, and LineageOS 18.1 with GAPPS. Root is not important at the moment.
Here’s what I did:
After successfully unlocking the bootloader (thank you Motorola), I downloaded TWRP for Chanel from the TWRP.me site. My plan was to first install TWRP, then use TWRP’s install feature for LoS 18.1 and the GAPPS.
To install TWRP recovery, I followed the instructions on the TWRP site. After starting the ADB server on my Windows 10 PC and booting the phone into the stock recovery, I used “adb boot twrp-3.5.2_10-0-channel.img” to temporarily boot into TWRP recovery. I then used ADB to push TWRP.zip onto the internal SDCARD. I used TWRP’s install feature to install "twrp-installer-3.5.2_10-0-channel.zip", presumably to both slots. To the best of my memory, everything completed correctly.
BUT . . . when I powered down the phone and attempted to boot into recovery, all I got was a black screen with a small N/A in the upper left corner instead of the familiar TWRP screens. After a while, the phone booted itself into the stock U.S. Cellular Android 10 (Hell Oh - Moe Toe). I've done several power-off/power-on cycles to no avail. I am able to get to and use the stock OS.
So, like TWRP.me suggests, I figured I’d just flash it back to stock and start over. Um, nope. I can Vol-DN/Power to the bootloader menu, but “adb devices” doesn’t see the phone, preventing me from flashing anything. USB Debugging is enabled and the phone says "USB Transfer Mode: Connected". “adb devices” sees the phone while Android 10 is running, but as soon as I boot into recovery, the phone “disappears” from ADB.
The only other thing I could think to do was to use the “Rescue” function in the Lenovo/Motorola Smart Assistant. While ADB can’t see the phone, LMSC sees it just fine and I was able to rescue/reinstall the stock OS successfully, or so LMSC said. Unfortunately, LMSC doesn’t seem to fix whatever is wrong with the recovery. Interestingly, “N/A” no longer appears after Vol-DN/Power and select Recovery Mode, the black screen now says “bad key”, followed a little while later by the Android logo with a “!” in the middle of the screen and “No command” below it.
And that’s the hole I now reside in. Despite considerable searching/reading here at XDA, I'm at a total loss for what to do next.
SOOOO, I’m hoping someone can help me:
1. Fix the N/A black screen
2. Get into a mode that ADB can see
3. Properly install TWRP
Thank you in advance,
Tenaya
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HellxDo,
Thanks for the reply.
After I used LSMC to "rescue" the phone, it stopped displaying N/A" and began showing "Bad key". Different, but not better.
HellxDo said:
Now why is it on a boot loop you may ask, well that is because there is no more operating system to load in.
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Hmmm . . . The phone currently boots into the stock rom (U.S. Cellular Android 10) if I wait a while after "Bad key" displays. If there's no more OS to load in, how do it do dat?
HellxDo said:
But worry not, try to get into your bootloader, and try to connect adb through there.
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My (limited) understanding is that the only way to "get into" my bootloader was with the Vol-DN/PWR button combination. When I do that , I get the bootloader menu, but ADB doesn't/can't see the phone - nothing is listed when I run ADB devices and fastboot won't/can't flash anything.
Is there a different/better way to get into my bootloader?
Tenaya
And the adventure continues. Here's some more information.
While continuing to research this, I was wondering if there was another way to boot the phone into EDL mode and Google found some instructions at thecustomdroid.com for using ADB to boot the phone into EDL. I booted the phone to the stock OS and used the command adb reboot edl. The phone immediately went blank, followed shortly by the "bad key" message. After a while it again booted into the stock rom.
I still cannot use fastboot because it doesn't/can't see the phone.
I have also discovered that if i use VOL-UP/PWR, the phone boots directly to "bad key", followed by the stock rom. Another dead end.
I also used LMSC to "Rescue" the phone again and learned several things:
While LMSC is running, it boots the phone into the bootloader menu and begins to flash. If I do adb devices while LMSC is flashing, the phone STILL doesn't appear in the list.
LMSC definitely flashed the stock OS - when the phone rebooted, it was back to the stock OS Android start screen as if it had never been configured.
There is still no recovery and I still can't flash anything.
LMSC is somehow able to flash without a recovery present.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Tenaya
Tenaya43 said:
And the adventure continues. Here's some more information.
While continuing to research this, I was wondering if there was another way to boot the phone into EDL mode and Google found some instructions at thecustomdroid.com for using ADB to boot the phone into EDL. I booted the phone to the stock OS and used the command adb reboot edl. The phone immediately went blank, followed shortly by the "bad key" message. After a while it again booted into the stock rom.
I still cannot use fastboot because it doesn't/can't see the phone.
I have also discovered that if i use VOL-UP/PWR, the phone boots directly to "bad key", followed by the stock rom. Another dead end.
I also used LMSC to "Rescue" the phone again and learned several things:
While LMSC is running, it boots the phone into the bootloader menu and begins to flash. If I do adb devices while LMSC is flashing, the phone STILL doesn't appear in the list.
LMSC definitely flashed the stock OS - when the phone rebooted, it was back to the stock OS Android start screen as if it had never been configured.
There is still no recovery and I still can't flash anything.
LMSC is somehow able to flash without a recovery present.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Tenaya
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If "fastboot devices" can't see your device while in bootloader mode, that could be the same issue I had relating to your USB compatibility with your computer. Try to borrow someone else's computer, install "platform-tools" to see if the "fastboot devices" command works.
If that works, next see if the command "fastboot getvar all" works. You should get many lines of info come up. If it gets stuck after a couple of lines, then the symptoms are the same as what I had. I have a bunch of really old laptops and a desktop sitting around with platform-tools just for this issue. I have heard others say that plugging the phone in via a USB hub sometimes gets fastboot to connect properly, but I haven't had success yet.
OK, some progress.
I found this:
[GUIDE][TOOL] Reboot to EDL mode from FASTBOOT! No More "Test Point Method"! [kenzo]
kenzo has graciously hacked fastboot.exe to force the phone into EDL mode. Using that, the phone booted into EDL and fastboot devices can now "see" the phone. Thank you kenzo.
BTW, kenzo's fastboot-edl isn't G7 Play specific, it was originally for the Xiaomi Redme Note 3 and seems to work for some other Android phones as well.
I'm still working on getting TWRP and LoS installed, but at least fastboot can talk to the phone.
zpunout said:
I have heard others say that plugging the phone in via a USB hub sometimes gets fastboot to connect properly
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I also had no luck with a USB hub.
I haven't tried another computer yet; I'm going to see what I can accomplish with fastboot-edl.
Tenaya
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