How to raise GT540 from the dead

[Guest Sandulea]

Like many others, I have managed to brick my phone, BUT after many hours of searching and reading and trial and error I managed to come up with a solution. I had a somewhat particular setup, so I don't know if this only worked in my case, but I'm guessing it will work in a lot of cases of stuck on boot with the LG logo, after the blue whirly animation.

First of all, my phone as it was before the bricking and what I did to brick it:

I started out originally with a korean ROM (that's what the online store I got it from sold), then went through baltic V20B, romanian V20A, back to baltic, then baltic V20D, then I installed clockwork mod as per http://android.modaco.com/content/lg-gt540...kwork-recovery/ , then I installed the Vasquez mod via recovery. Thus the final configuration was Vasquez ROM (a modified Quarx Black Rom) with Clockwork. I wanted to revert to Romanian V20A, because it used the least amount of RAM with all useless apps killed (less than both baltics, even though it took up a few more MB's in the phone memory), so I just flashed it via the english KDZ_FW_UPD normally. On reboot, it got stuck on the LG image while booting, just after the blue whirly animation.

There are dozens of topics on this and other forums with solutions on how to reflash, all recommend using regular ROMs. Some people reinstalled the LG drivers or used the update tool or reflashed a different ROM. None of this worked for me, sometimes the reflashing would complete, the KDZ would say it's finished, sometimes it got stuck halfway through, sometimes it wouldn't see the phone. I always came to the same result.

What I did to repair:

1.I removed the battery, SD card and SIM card, plugged the phone in the computer and reflashed the Clockwork recovery rom.kdz (found in the topic mentioned above) with (IMPORTANT) 3GQCT Type and Phonemode CS_emergency settings. Afterwards I followed the rest of the steps in that topic for Clockwork installation:

2.once the Clockwork recovery rom.kdz file has been installed switch off your phone and unplug (it switches itself off since it doesn't have a battery, you also put back the battery and the SD and SIM card after you unplug)

3.download android sdk off android developers website and extract into your C drive

4.hold power button and camera button until the lg logo goes and screen is black

5.plug your phone into your pc while its on the black screen and open cmd

6.download recovery.img and place in C drive

7.in cmd type: cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools , then press enter, then write fastboot.exe flash recovery C:\recovery.img , then press enter. it should say OKAY twice. Close cmd.

8.unplug and take out battery then place it back in

After this I booted into recovery mode and used one of the clockwork backups I had made before the bricking.

There are a bunch of drivers and stuff that need installing. I would suggest reading the thread I mentioned above as well as other "i bricked my gt540" threads (i'm sure you have already), you should find links to anything you need, 'cause that's how I did it.

I'll say again: I'm not sure this is a universal solution, it may be the solution that worked for me. Post any questions that you may have, I'll do my best to answer them.

[Guest pepi74]

You just flash with clockrecovery rom and put clockrecovery console.

But ( for now) it is impossible to re flash phone with normal stock LG ROMS once that fastboot rom was flashed to LG540. ( and that is what I need)

And also you can use any fastboot ROM with your procedure to work , you dont need to put clockwork ROM since there is fresh fastboot ROM is out (20 D for baltic)

nice try ;)

[Guest Sandulea]

You just flash with clockrecovery rom and put clockrecovery console.

But ( for now) it is impossible to re flash phone with normal stock LG ROMS once that fastboot rom was flashed to LG540. ( and that is what I need)

And also you can use any fastboot ROM with your procedure to work , you dont need to put clockwork ROM since there is fresh fastboot ROM is out (20 D for baltic)

nice try ;)

Well that makes it clear. I also want to flash a normal LG ROM, I wish I had known that I can't go back to one once I went the fastboot route.

[Guest pepi74]

Well that makes it clear. I also want to flash a normal LG ROM, I wish I had known that I can't go back to one once I went the fastboot route.

I didnot know that also ;)

[Guest nutbolt]

Like many others, I have managed to brick my phone, BUT after many hours of searching and reading and trial and error I managed to come up with a solution. I had a somewhat particular setup, so I don't know if this only worked in my case, but I'm guessing it will work in a lot of cases of stuck on boot with the LG logo, after the blue whirly animation.

First of all, my phone as it was before the bricking and what I did to brick it:

I started out originally with a korean ROM (that's what the online store I got it from sold), then went through baltic V20B, romanian V20A, back to baltic, then baltic V20D, then I installed clockwork mod as per http://android.modaco.com/content/lg-gt540...kwork-recovery/ , then I installed the Vasquez mod via recovery. Thus the final configuration was Vasquez ROM (a modified Quarx Black Rom) with Clockwork. I wanted to revert to Romanian V20A, because it used the least amount of RAM with all useless apps killed (less than both baltics, even though it took up a few more MB's in the phone memory), so I just flashed it via the english KDZ_FW_UPD normally. On reboot, it got stuck on the LG image while booting, just after the blue whirly animation.

There are dozens of topics on this and other forums with solutions on how to reflash, all recommend using regular ROMs. Some people reinstalled the LG drivers or used the update tool or reflashed a different ROM. None of this worked for me, sometimes the reflashing would complete, the KDZ would say it's finished, sometimes it got stuck halfway through, sometimes it wouldn't see the phone. I always came to the same result.

What I did to repair:

1.I removed the battery, SD card and SIM card, plugged the phone in the computer and reflashed the Clockwork recovery rom.kdz (found in the topic mentioned above) with (IMPORTANT) 3GQCT Type and Phonemode CS_emergency settings. Afterwards I followed the rest of the steps in that topic for Clockwork installation:

2.once the Clockwork recovery rom.kdz file has been installed switch off your phone and unplug (it switches itself off since it doesn't have a battery, you also put back the battery and the SD and SIM card after you unplug)

3.download android sdk off android developers website and extract into your C drive

4.hold power button and camera button until the lg logo goes and screen is black

5.plug your phone into your pc while its on the black screen and open cmd

6.download recovery.img and place in C drive

7.in cmd type: cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools , then press enter, then write fastboot.exe flash recovery C:\recovery.img , then press enter. it should say OKAY twice. Close cmd.

8.unplug and take out battery then place it back in

After this I booted into recovery mode and used one of the clockwork backups I had made before the bricking.

There are a bunch of drivers and stuff that need installing. I would suggest reading the thread I mentioned above as well as other "i bricked my gt540" threads (i'm sure you have already), you should find links to anything you need, 'cause that's how I did it.

I'll say again: I'm not sure this is a universal solution, it may be the solution that worked for me. Post any questions that you may have, I'll do my best to answer them.

:D :D Thank you so much for this, this has fixed my boot loop lg logo issue. I suppose now I can backup my working phone asap so that this never happens again. I may try the fastboot -w command to wipe all the fastboot stuff so that the original roms can be used but of course only once I back this baby up!

[Guest ilovelg]

First of all - Boot loop is not a bricked phone, you can easily revive it.

Bricked Phone wont even Turn ON, it wont react to anything, this is bricked phone, when u kill the bootloader. And only LG Service Guys can fix it, and some Hackers with J-Tag Hardware.

Edited February 14, 2011 by ilovelg

[Guest destroyerGT540]

I wish I had known that I can't go back to one once I went the fastboot route.

Sure you can. I went back to a LG rom after having trouble with Black quarx, whats the big problem? :D