sammyz

Due to the phone having a locked bootloader, it's very likely you will brick your Spirit somehow.
This will fix that.

Stuff to Download
Download Firmware: LG Spirit 4G Official Firmware MS87010a
Download Drivers: MS870 3.8.1 Drivers
Download KDZ: KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.zip

Getting into Emergency Mode (Download Mode)
From powered off,
Hold volume up and down and plug in USB.
(To get out of e-mode, hold power button for 10 seconds, or pull battery.) DO NOT DO WHILE FLASHING

Instructions:

1. Install phone drivers
2. Install msxml.msi
3. Disable antivirus software
4. Open UpTestEX_mod2_marwin.exe
5. Wait for the program to open
6. Look for "Encrypt cab file to kdz file"
7. Click the folder icon
8. Choose the location of the cab you downloaded for MS870 firmware
9. Encrypt cab -> kdz Program will freeze up. DO NOT EXIT until program shows the location of the new file!!! Otherwise it won't finish converting.
10. Close program
11. Open KDZ_FW_UPD.exe
12. "Type" choose CDMA
13. Choose in "Phonemode": Emergency
14. Click the folder icon and choose the kdz file that UpTestEX_mod2_marwin.exe just made.
15. Click Launch software update and enjoy!

If you are stuck in a bootloop after this, from powered off:
Hold Volume Down+Power and press Power. You will lose all data not stored on SD card.

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Last edited by sammyz; February 25th, 2013 at 07:23 PM.

Spdfreak34

Volume up + Volume down + Power gets you this screen.



When you try to flash the KDZ file on this screen you get "phone not found".

sammyz

Yea, I know that now...after the super bowl there will be a guide to get into e-mode.

sammyz

Wait, does the spirit have a camera button?

Spdfreak34

no, it doesn't.

sammyz

Ok 4 seconds left in game
Edit, game over.
Ravens win

sammyz

Ok, forcing download mode added, someone confirm this please

sammyz

Can someone try this to get into download mode?

From phone off:
Hold volume up and down and plug in USB.

skrapmetal

Works here...

KervinMoreno

It says "PHONE NOT FOUND!"

sammyz

Are your drivers installed?

bnb25

i keep getting Extract file error. Whats mean?

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That's to much work!!

sammyz

It means you didn't download the entire thing. Redownload the firmware.

bnb25

I did and still the same thing. would it being a 64bit computer be a problem?

sammyz

Nope...maybe it didn't convert correctly.make sure the MBs of the KDZ matches that of the cab.

bnb25

got it, after the 4 times download the firmware it worked. Thanks for the help.

PlayfulAlien

will this get me to get my phone to 1.5ghz

bnb25

this is just to get yoru phone out of a brick state. Spirit is already set to 1.5 even though metro list it as 1.2

PlayfulAlien

how can you tell if it is 1.5ghz? just wanna noe

PlayfulAlien

i feel slow rite noe i just download romtoolbox and saw the cpu at 1512ghz

bnb25

lol there you go. if you use quadrant standard and go to system information. it will also tell you.

Last edited by bnb25; March 3rd, 2013 at 02:52 PM.

strutter67

Works great! I just removed the sd card so I would save my stuff. After unbricking reinserted it and all is good.

Last edited by strutter67; February 28th, 2013 at 11:18 PM.

OrKo

I accidentally uninstalled the google movies app before I read the disclaimer about which apps not to delete. The phone kept running fine until this afternoon when I got a security error when attempting to reboot. Now I'm trying to follow these directions and I keep getting stuck when trying to run the KDZ_FW_UPD. I keep getting kdz encrypt error/ extract file error. Any help??

Thanks OrKo

Last edited by OrKo; March 3rd, 2013 at 01:45 PM.

OrKo

Keep getting the kdz decrypt error extract file error. in the firmware down it says the file is 681mb when I download it it says 681mb when I pull it into a folder it's reading 680mb the kdz file uptest made is the same size as the cab file 680. Any help? still got a semi brick here

sammyz

Wrong file size, Redownload with a different browser.

bnb25

its the firmware download, i had to download it 4 times to get a good one. i don't know whats up with that, try the alternative link he has

OrKo

No the download was complete, my error was when I tried to move it from the downloads folder to the folder where I'm keeping all the unbricking files. Some how some where something just fudged, when I followed the step leaving the the files where they downloaded to all went smooth. So I finally got it to go through. I can't thank you enough for this guide on unbricking! One thing I have noticed since owning and rooting all my android devices, most of the guidelines are written in ways expecting all users to know how to operate all these programs small details like extract files from zip into new folder in order for programs to run properly are just assumed I can't tell you how many times I tried running the ex files while in 7zip and they didn't run properly until I pulled them out. Lil details like if you move d/ld'd files you may loose data are also overlooked, had I not been desperate to try all options I might not have known this and returned to metro for a refurb just over a minor detail. All that said I'm glad I figured this all out and again I thank you Sammyz for this guide, without it I'd have had a semi brick.

rsurfer

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

Mot sure why I didnt read the no delete google crap note , oh well , Thank you

worked well

rsurfer

called metro now 4G

Last edited by rsurfer; March 5th, 2013 at 09:46 PM.

jamesmania88

where is the torrent to the firmware? I want to help seed it.

sammyz

Here: http://kat.ph/lg-spirit-firmware-t7167039.html (website is down right now)

and here:

MS87010a_05 S10a_05 P3032 cab Torrent Downloads - download free torrents!

Magnet: MS87010a_05

jamesmania88

I don't have a kat account so the second link will have to work for now

GameTheory

edit:
Never mind, just needed to update windows 7. It's been a long time since I use it.

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Last edited by GameTheory; March 8th, 2013 at 05:12 AM.

Bard

Interesting... while making custom rom for spirit, I accidentally flashed LG Motions's firmware to Spirit, eventually the phone bricked.

I could see phone was turning on (lcd lit up) but no message showed up at all, no download mode message, no factory reset message even with key combinations.

So I just assumed I was in download mode and connected USB and flashed Spirit firmware.. surprisingly it was flashing all firmware files and doing all the steps, eventually phone rebooted and went back to normal (phew..)

so even though you don't see the factory mode message, the phone might be in factory reset as long as you turn on with volume + - , i thought i perma bricked my phone but it wasn't

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jamesmania88

Well glad you got it solved. Hopefully rom soon.

sammyz

Is your 4G working?

Bard

Yeah right now everything is working, 4g, 3g, wifi, call, text,

AquerMang

@sammyz: Maybe post some CRC/MD5/SHA1's for the firmware file? It'd be nice to say these extract errors are definitely caused by a bad download.

Thanks.

sammyz

Done
MD5: ce6edfdc6e5ac820028e568260687fa7
SHA-1: 7fa7c347e4574e3d44615086d94b31def34cb6ec

Last edited by sammyz; March 26th, 2013 at 10:00 AM.

MetroPOS13

Does the app tell me to unplug? or just finish writing script?

My phone was bricked..and it went through everything, doesn't say unplug on the app though.

My phone says "Need to charge more to power on".


Is it done? Or do I need to let my laptop charge it so the app can finish installing the KDZ?

GameTheory

Once you get this last line, the unbrick is done and you can unplug the phone...

Step Complete : DSP Write

MetroPOS13

That was a quick reply! I had already said **** it and unplugged it...I'm not exactly sure what the issue was why I had a brick though.

I download the gapps.zip and it bricked during the download?!?! I'm gonna keep a close watch on the phone the next few days as a stock phone and if I have any issues I'll force a brick then get it replaced by Metro.

sammyz

You didn't delete videos.apk, did you?

OrKo

Lol I did that once it didn't brick until I rebooted the phone though, and all I was the LG logo with a security error message and that's all lol. Not a fun time

MetroPOS13

No I didn't delete any Google apps at all, I know thats a no-no. It went into a bootloop during a download, then I tried a factory reset...and it stayed in bootloop. My only guess is that possibly once the zip was downloaded one of my file explorer's were set to auto unzip file after download and it caused the crash. I'm not exactly sure to be honest. It was rooted, bloatware removed except for Google apps..custom bootload, stock rom, 2nit recovery, google now installed and then just games.

Either way, thank you tons Sammyz for the write-up and saving my phone!!

howeejr

so say i want to just unroot, i gotta do the same thing as if i was bricked?

sammyz

Yep.

shatterstar78

"UpTestEX_mod2_marwin" does not seem to work om Windows 8 64bit.

sammyz

Right click it>Properties>Compatibility tab> Run in compatibility as Windows XP SP3
But make sure the task isn't running before you change it.

shatterstar78

Still does not work.