[GUIDE] Get out of Fastboot Mode

joneidy · July 25th, 2011, 03:22 PM

I have received like hundreds of pms from a lot of people telling me to get their phone out of Fastboot Mode. Well from now on people wont have to wait for me to help them, they would be able to do it themselves.

1) Setup

Download my fastboot files here.
Unzip the files to your C:\ drive.

On your C:\ drive you will see a folder named Fastboot after you unzip the files. With some files and folders on it.

Now double click on LGUnitedMobileDriver_S497CA20_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0 to make sure that drivers are installed. The file doesn`t show any interface, so just wait 5 minutes then continue with the guide. Picture below show contents of folder and files.

Now that drivers are installed; connect your phone to the pc. Most of the time the computer will install the drivers for Fastboot mode but if it doesn`t I`ll tell you how to do it. If you saw that the computer installed the drivers then skip to step 2.

Right click on my Computer. Click Manage. Then on the left bar click on Device Manager.

Now just follow all the images below to install Fastboot drivers.

2) Usage

Now that you have the Fastboot Drivers Installed. Lets continue with all the commands.

Open Cmd and type or copy and paste these commands ONE BY ONE:

Code:

cd C:\Fastboot\android-sdk-windows\tools
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system

Now we need to flash recovery via Fastboot. Type or copy and paste this command on Cmd:

Code:

fastboot flash recovery C:\Fastboot\Recovery\recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img

Then type this on Cmd to reboot to recovery:

Code:

fastboot reboot

Now your phone will reboot to recovery. All you have to do now is to install a rom and your phone will be back to normal.

Hope this helps.

jabbawest · July 25th, 2011, 03:29 PM

Very nice addition.

jay239 · July 26th, 2011, 01:40 AM

Thank you

this may help out alot

lonDetGirl2011 · July 31st, 2011, 01:41 PM

yeah i was one of the idiot noobs that sent you a pm about 5 mins ago. this is very sweet of you, seriously indebted, will try it now. off i go.....

lonDetGirl2011 · July 31st, 2011, 02:56 PM

well i actually got to the recovery menu, then went to the sd card it couldnt find the rom i put on there, so i took the sd card out, it restarted and went back to fastboot mode, now when i do all the above steps it just goes back to fastboot mode. now have i completely bricked this? does this mean the phone is unusable, because it wont go into recovery ? what next? i notice no one is replying to me, so i must just be buggered then..........heavy sigh. will wait.

lonDetGirl2011 · July 31st, 2011, 05:46 PM

ok heres what i did to get the sense rom on the phone, after i did your original instructions here, i couldnt get why fastboot reboot wouldnt get the phone to reboot in recovery, so almost on accident lol i hard reset the phone after i took out the sd card battery, put battery in first the sd card then held home + vol down+ power, it then went into recovery mode. i had to do this twice because i had not put the full flash file ( unzipped) into a folder on its own, what i got before was /data /meta/ system as options to choose when i went to look for the zip, so then i realised the zip file has to be whole, and put in a directory.
I gave this longa## description incase anyone is as much as a dummy as me. got the sense rom and its sweet, makes me want to do more. But i'm scared. Thanks Joneidy.

Mikenly · July 31st, 2011, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lonDetGirl2011

ok heres what i did to get the sense rom on the phone, after i did your original instructions here, i couldnt get why fastboot reboot wouldnt get the phone to reboot in recovery, so almost on accident lol i hard reset the phone after i took out the sd card battery, put battery in first the sd card then held home + vol down+ power, it then went into recovery mode. i had to do this twice because i had not put the full flash file ( unzipped) into a folder on its own, what i got before was /data /meta/ system as options to choose when i went to look for the zip, so then i realised the zip file has to be whole, and put in a directory.
I gave this longa## description incase anyone is as much as a dummy as me. got the sense rom and its sweet, makes me want to do more. But i'm scared. Thanks Joneidy.

What else do you want to do?

lonDetGirl2011 · August 1st, 2011, 12:26 AM

was considering cyanogenmod, but it seems ppl have some issues with the glitchiness, and i might run into some trouble? i just like customizing my phone alot

Mikenly · August 1st, 2011, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lonDetGirl2011

was considering cyanogenmod, but it seems ppl have some issues with the glitchiness, and i might run into some trouble? i just like customizing my phone alot

Well Cyanogen is pretty good but kind of buggy. You should still try it to see if it fits you.

jurn77 · August 2nd, 2011, 05:06 AM

I used ClockWorkMod to try and do a backup as I was going to install a custom ROM onto my Optimus T and it is now stuck in fastboot. I followed all the steps yet when I get to input any fastboot commands it gets stuck and says <waiting for device> and never goes anywhere from there. If anyone could help me I'd appreciate it.

joneidy · August 2nd, 2011, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jurn77

I used ClockWorkMod to try and do a backup as I was going to install a custom ROM onto my Optimus T and it is now stuck in fastboot. I followed all the steps yet when I get to input any fastboot commands it gets stuck and says <waiting for device> and never goes anywhere from there. If anyone could help me I'd appreciate it.

You need to install the correct drivers, in your case the drivers for the Optimus T. Also flash your recovery via fastboot. So just follow the guide using the drivers and the custom recovery for the Optimus T.

Hope this helps

lonDetGirl2011 · August 2nd, 2011, 07:01 PM

i did try cyanogen Mikenly and its just ridiculously good. glitchiness is minimal in my opinion. Joneidy did a great job in getting me this far. now i'm gonna look into making my own themes might take a few months to learn, but nothing ventured nothing gained.

freakinjose · August 12th, 2011, 07:03 PM

okay but when i launch the lg driver thing nothing comes up!!!!

joneidy · August 12th, 2011, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by freakinjose

okay but when i launch the lg driver thing nothing comes up!!!!

Make sure that you are READING the guide. All of it. I just said that nothing comes up after you open the drivers file. So just wait 5 mins then continue.

Ps Not trying to be mean or anything, but you need to follow instructions to make things right.

Hope you get the phone out of fastboot. LOL

freakinjose · August 12th, 2011, 07:13 PM

lol okay i followed it all the way up until yuh try have to find the driver...im using windows xp not vista

pmb116 · August 12th, 2011, 07:17 PM

Just go to lgs website and search for the drivers

freakinjose · August 12th, 2011, 07:23 PM

lemme be specific im using windows xp i downloaded the files he gave above i went to my computer to mange to device manager i found my android i left cliciked it i put update i need help from this part...i have xp not vista!

freakinjose · August 12th, 2011, 08:27 PM

alright guys i need yuhr help please!!! ive made it to the part when i have to put have disk....and i have to find the Lg Electronics folder and the problem is i dont have this file!! do i download it!? where do i download it! plz direct link!!

freakinjose · August 13th, 2011, 01:47 PM

alright help me out guys im so close i think i set up the fastboot already but when i put a command it just says <waiting for device> or it'll say device not found...when it is connected!! my phone also says Fastboot mode started udc () reset portchang reset portchange!!!! what do i need to do!!

BMC500B · August 15th, 2011, 03:47 AM

phone is not showing in device manager,phone says processing commands,installed LGUnitedMobileDriver_S497CA20_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0 wiated like 20 minutes just to make sure they installed,still showing nothing!

freakinjose · August 15th, 2011, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMC500B

phone is not showing in device manager,phone says processing commands,installed LGUnitedMobileDriver_S497CA20_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0 wiated like 20 minutes just to make sure they installed,still showing nothing!

if yuhr phone is saying processing commands it may already be set up!! just open command prompt type in fastboot if it says fastboot is not a command or whatever then its not working...but if yuh write fastboot and a lot of text jumps up then everything is working correctly!! after all the text comes up use the commands that the guide provided above!!!
reminder: once yuh enter the commands yuhr phone should reboot into recovery mode DO NOT TURN IT OFF OR UNPLUG IT!!! YUH ONLY GET ONE SHOT!!! i made the mistake of accidently letting my phone shuts off in recovery and now i can never put in back into it!! anyways once yuhr in recovery try to find a stock rom and find outm how to install it. THIS IS ONLY 1 OF 2 Methods YUH CAN DO TO TAKE YUHR PHONE OUT OF FASTBOOT!!!

tubalard · August 15th, 2011, 08:19 PM

SORRY< this don't work...

I install the USB drivers, driver installed susesfully, but it doesen't show up in devise manager. There is no "ANDROID" files in the devicse manager, only LG USB storage.

I've tried USB debugging off and on, still no help...
Trying to run this on Windows 7

pmb116 · August 15th, 2011, 08:39 PM

Try disabling UAC (User Account Control) and also disable your antivirus, sometimes they corrupt the driver download and install. After you disable redownload the drivers.

BMC500B · August 15th, 2011, 10:40 PM

dont know how to open command promt,tried SDK but not working!

Crex321 · September 7th, 2011, 12:08 AM

Alright when i type "fastboot erase recovery", it says "< waiting for device >". So my computer isn't recognizing my phone? Please reply.

tripdoc79 · September 7th, 2011, 11:43 AM

thanx for putting this together joneidy.. this is something i have been trying to get the time to put together. awesome guide

shromy · September 10th, 2011, 03:05 AM

Cant get drivers to load. Keep getting,"Specified location does not contain info for your hardware". Had it rooted to 2.2.1(stock 2.2.2) and regained my cell signal. When I went to recover I must have hit a wrong key or recovery file didnt actually load fully. Wifey is not gonna be happy if I have a new 130 dollar paperweight. Thanks in advance for any help.

shromy · September 10th, 2011, 10:15 AM

Got it to work and accidentally rebooted back into fast boot. Now when trying all i get is bad block error cannot erase on the phone, when going back through the steps. cmd says ok and finished.
any ideas?
Tried erasing partition and get unknown partition error in cmd. I had to use the generic google usb driver and it comes up as adb interface in dev. man. since the provided drivers didnt want to load.
Should have just left it alone I am fearing.

shromy · September 10th, 2011, 11:09 AM

this has to be fixable. I can command fastboot to boot a boot.img provided with the team chicken eater rom and I get my charging screen as if the phone was off and charging. keep trying things to no avail,newb at this so learning proper command lines.

alfick3 · September 28th, 2011, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joneidy

I have received like hundreds of pms from a lot of people telling me to get their phone out of Fastboot Mode. Well from now on people wont have to wait for me to help them, they would be able to do it themselves.

1) Setup

Download my fastboot files here.
Unzip the files to your C:\ drive.

On your C:\ drive you will see a folder named Fastboot after you unzip the files. With some files and folders on it.

Now double click on LGUnitedMobileDriver_S497CA20_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0 to make sure that drivers are installed. The file doesn`t show any interface, so just wait 5 minutes then continue with the guide. Picture below show contents of folder and files.

Now that drivers are installed; connect your phone to the pc. Most of the time the computer will install the drivers for Fastboot mode but if it doesn`t I`ll tell you how to do it. If you saw that the computer installed the drivers then skip to step 2.

Right click on my Computer. Click Manage. Then on the left bar click on Device Manager.

Now just follow all the images below to install Fastboot drivers.

2) Usage

Now that you have the Fastboot Drivers Installed. Lets continue with all the commands.

Open Cmd and type or copy and paste these commands ONE BY ONE:

Code:

cd C:\Fastboot\android-sdk-windows\tools
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system

Now we need to flash recovery via Fastboot. Type or copy and paste this command on Cmd:

Code:

fastboot flash recovery C:\Fastboot\Recovery\recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img

Then type this on Cmd to reboot to recovery:

Code:

fastboot reboot

Now your phone will reboot to recovery. All you have to do now is to install a rom and your phone will be back to normal.

Hope this helps.

Ok. So I got into fast boot mode some how today. I was doing something with trying to re-flash recovery (going from CWM to GNM's recovery) and it went into fast boot mode. I have XP and so my options are slightly different than yours, but I was trying to follow along. When I got to the point that I select the lgandadb.inf, and then select ok I get an error that says "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." I tried some of the other drivers in there with the same results. Any thoughts on this?

joneidy · September 28th, 2011, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alfick3

Ok. So I got into fast boot mode some how today. I was doing something with trying to re-flash recovery (going from CWM to GNM's recovery) and it went into fast boot mode. I have XP and so my options are slightly different than yours, but I was trying to follow along. When I got to the point that I select the lgandadb.inf, and then select ok I get an error that says "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." I tried some of the other drivers in there with the same results. Any thoughts on this?

I haven`t done it in XP, but you could try installing the drivers again and see if that works. If it doesn't; let me know and I`ll see how I may be able to help you.

tripdoc79 · September 28th, 2011, 11:13 PM

yeah.. if you ahve the drivers installed.. it should just pop up "installing new drivers" when you plug the phone in while in fastboot mode.. or check your decive maanger and see if its showing up as a fastboot device

alfick3 · September 28th, 2011, 11:59 PM

Update: I went over to my wife's computer (she's got Win7) and was able to get it all working! Hoo ray! For some reason I couldn't get it to work on my XP Pro.

tripdoc79 · September 29th, 2011, 12:20 PM

Yeah its much easier than the lgnpst method lol especially if you have a backup

DaniellieeE · September 29th, 2011, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tripdoc79

Yeah its much easier than the lgnpst method lol especially if you have a backup

Yep agree - have Win7 - n that does seems to work much easier- much less steps, if I'm not mistaken

tripdoc79 · September 29th, 2011, 03:50 PM

yeah.. win7 with drivers installed.. just need fastboot on ur pc.. plug phone in, shows up as fastboot device, move recovery into folder with fastboot, open command prompt, go to fastboot folder, type fastboot flash recovery.img and done lol, reboot into recovery, restore. golden

BMC500B · September 30th, 2011, 01:59 AM

Could someone please tell me how to open or where CMD is. I bricked my friends phone and would really like to fix it. i did every thing else on this thread. Seems to be the only thing i cant figure out. Thank you!!

tripdoc79 · September 30th, 2011, 09:38 AM

you on win7 or winxp? if winxp click start, go to accessories, should be in the list, if win7 click start and just type cmd itll pop up

BMC500B · September 30th, 2011, 05:26 PM

Thanks for the help tripdoc,i ended up googling it. But got it to work and phone is back up and running!

Helpmeplea · October 19th, 2011, 09:06 AM

Is there a way to do this for mac! my phone is at

Fastboot mode started
uds_start()

thanks

Helpmeplea · October 19th, 2011, 11:20 PM

Ok so I got paralell and decided to try this out. I am running windows 7. I am stuck on part 3 because my cmd does not connect to the android or something like that, it always says "The system cannot find the path specified"

thank you for the tutorial just stuck on this

joneidy · October 21st, 2011, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Helpmeplea

Ok so I got paralell and decided to try this out. I am running windows 7. I am stuck on part 3 because my cmd does not connect to the android or something like that, it always says "The system cannot find the path specified"

thank you for the tutorial just stuck on this

Make sure that you are typing this into cmd, also that you extracted the downloaded .zip file to your C:\ drive

This is what you should type into cmd after unzipping the file:

Code:

cd C:\Fastboot\android-sdk-windows\tools
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system

Then type this to flash recovery and reboot to recovery:

Code:

fastboot flash recovery C:\Fastboot\Recovery\recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img
fastboot reboot

PS Type one command at a time in cmd.

Hope this helps

Cyndaquil · October 23rd, 2011, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joneidy

Make sure that you are READING the guide. All of it. I just said that nothing comes up after you open the drivers file. So just wait 5 mins then continue.

Ps Not trying to be mean or anything, but you need to follow instructions to make things right.

Hope you get the phone out of fastboot. LOL

Hi, when I try to get the thing installed, I get this:

http://minichan.org/img/1319406174971696.png

Sorry for posting a website, but I can't post pictures yet. Anything you can offer as help? Please?

Cyndaquil · October 23rd, 2011, 05:28 PM

Okay, I finally got it to work, but after doing all the fastboot stuff, it still goes back to the fastboot screen...

rustbucket1515 · November 10th, 2011, 09:20 AM

ok what if it says, driver is not compatible make sure is designed for windows 32 bit system?

mario16 · November 20th, 2011, 12:16 AM

Thanks alot my phone got stuck in fast boot mode while trying to used flash image GUI with gnm customer recovery. I thought I was going to have to do the lgnst thing but thanks alot save me alot of time and trouble

yahhboy · November 20th, 2011, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mario16

Thanks alot my phone got stuck in fast boot mode while trying to used flash image GUI with gnm customer recovery. I thought I was going to have to do the lgnst thing but thanks alot save me alot of time and trouble

+1 I got into fastboot trying to flash cwm through flash image GUI, just wiped the recovery partition and pushed the gnm recovery on

Mephisteles · November 22nd, 2011, 06:29 PM

Joneidy, your instructions require that the Android Device is recognized in the Device Manager. What can one do if they are stuck on Fastboot mode after failing to properly flash a custom recovery and their PC doesn't recognize their device?

My device isn't recognized and it's held me back from completing any of your detailed guides.

What can i do?!

alfick3 · November 23rd, 2011, 12:41 AM

Once again, this guide saved my bacon.

I was trying to use the flashimage gui app to flash playfulgod's newest CWM recovery (CWM 5.0.2.6) to replace the version 4 something that I had, and it went into fast boot mode. Oh well. This time around though, I placed his recovery image into the recovery folder and flashed it instead of the GNM recovery that is supplied with the files provided in the OP. It worked like a charm. I do have the CWM recovery and am in the process of restoring my most recent back up made with CWM from a couple of days ago.

KrazeeCracker · November 28th, 2011, 03:39 PM

FML this guide had me stuck on waiting for device. So i said **** it and went ahead and just reflashed sense from the revoery and all is well

WOA: stay away from the V6 supercharger! shit ****ed me up bad!