Some people in this forum deserve kisses, "seanre453" and "karendar"
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Not that you would get them from me but my wife is really happy that I unbricked her LG Shine Plus that she tried to update yesterday and I am likely to receive kisses tonight!
I followed the instructions set fourth by "seanre453" at the start of this thread and with minor issues being;
(1.) "where XXX is your phone's MEID, without dashes. Given a vaild MEID, the script will give you a text string containing a direct link to download the .KDZ firmware file. TO NOTE: The kdz file given to you contains android 2.3. I have not been able to test the possibility of reverting to a previous version of android with this method".
*You must copy and paste only one of the URLs shown in the script to get the download.
(2.) My PC would not detect my phone until,
*I pulled the battery, waited 10 secs, reinserted battery then held 1+home+power on (emergency mode).
Then phone was detected, started process mentioned above and voila! Unbricked phone.
All of this is a result of my wife reading that she could upgrade to a newer android to which I see no concrete evidence on the T website.
She took this phone into the local store where the sales person somewhat laughed at her and told her that her best option was to get a pay as you go phone from Wally for around $100 or have it sent out for repair which would cost over $100.
I phoned T and they said that they or I could not prove where the error occurred and therefore were unable to help with the issue and suggested that I go back to the T store and have it sent out for repair or purchase another phone. They did add a discount to my account towards the early-out fee towards a new phone.
I phoned LG, nothing there either, they stated my best option was to have the phone repaired. I stated that I was unhappy with the salesperson at the local store and had no intentions of returning there to have the phone sent out and LG CS was helpful enough to give me the number to the actual repair place.
I phoned the repair place and they told me they could not walk me through a recovery process as my phone needed to be re-flashed. They stated that the repair would only cost $39 +tax and shipping to them and they would repair it within 2 days of receiving it.
At this point the last option was my choice as the CS at the repair shop seemed to be the most helpful and understanding. I thought I have nothing left to lose and followed the procedure in this thread which I now realize should have been my first step!!
So many thanks to "seanre453" and "karendar" and anyone else deserving. Now how do I make her battery last for more than a day+?