Introduction
Sometimes the smartphone LGF320S might become bricked (unusable) for several reasons. This troubleshooting will guide you through those possibilities in order to help you bring the phone back to life!
The first three steps four steps are general tips on how to access the different recuperation modes on the phone. You may begin at step 5 instead and come back afterwards.
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Turn off the phone and wait five seconds.
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Hold the "Volume Up" button and the "Power" button at the same time.
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Keep holding these buttons simultaneously until this "복구모드" message appears on a black screen.
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Immediately let go of both buttons.
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Wait for 3-5 seconds for the recovery mode menu to appear.
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If you have tried this unsuccessfully, try again. If you fail again, go to step .
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Turn off the phone and wait five seconds.
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Hold the "Volume Up" button and the "Power" button at the same time.
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Let go of both buttons when the LG splash screen comes up.
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Immediately hold the "Volume Up" and the "Volume Down" buttons simultaneously for 3-5 seconds until the factory reset menu comes up.
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Turn off the phone and wait five seconds.
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Press the "Volume Up" button and, while holding it down, connect the phone to a PC via a USB cable.
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Then, you may release the "Volume Up" button. Now, turn the phone on.
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Access the phone dialing screen (i.e. if you were to make a phone call).
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Input the following code into the dialing screen: 3845#*320#
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Make sure Developer mode (tap Build number/version 7 times) & USB Debugging is always on!
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You may learn how to do this here.
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Make sure the phone is fully charged before beginning this process.
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If you can't enter recovery mode, see tiny "secure booting error" during the booting process
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Alternatively, you may see many partition drives when you plug the phone into a PC.
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On Windows, you may see this by checking "device manager" -> "Other ports".
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If it has qualcomm xx, it's probably been bricked because when the PC can't access the phone, the latter goes to firmware by default.
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This pretty much means the phone is bricked.
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Download the SRKTool from here.
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You must have enabled USB Debugging mode in order to use this tool!
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Double click the srktool21.exe
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Be careful when selecting disk number!
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Reboot afterwards, it should have been factory reset and partition cleaned, so the phone will connect normally to PC.
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