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Jaxsonz

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Mar 30, 2023
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Hi. I need help...
I have an old LG G Vista (2014) with Android 5.1.1. It stuck in fastboot mode without a reason.

BEFORE HARD RESET:
- It loaded normally from time to time (after I take off the battery and put it in back again).
- It also loaded in Safe Mode.
- It was possible to charge the battery.

AFTER HARD RESET:
- It stuck in fastboot mode.
- It won't go to Download mode.
- It goes to Recovery mode (but it's useless).
- It won't load in Normal or Safe mode.
- It's impossible to charge the battery.

INSTALLED DRIVERS:
- adb drivers.
- LG drivers.
- Koush driver.
- PdaNet driver.

INSTALLED PROGRAMS:
- LG Flashtool 2014.
- Can't install LG Mobile Support Tool (process freezes at 5% of progress)

ADB / FASTBOOT:
- "adb devices" list is empty.
- "fastboot devices" detects the phone!
- "fastboot reboot" doesn't reboot the phone.
- commands like "fastboot erase laf" / "fastboot boot laf.img" / "fastboot flash laf laf.img" gives: FAILED remote unknown command.
- in Windows 8.1 devices manager phone can be shown as "Android Phone / Android ADB Interface" or "TP-Link Android Phone / Android Bootloader Interface" (depending of what driver is chosen in "update driver" section).

*When I'm typing any of fastboot commands I see these commands on my phone screen. For example after typing "fastboot reboot" in cmd I see "fastboot: reboot" on my phone screen but phone doesn't reboot in reality.

**As I read on some forums some people said that it seems like 5.1.1 Android for my phone has locked bootloader but I'm not sure about it. However I'm ready to downgrade to Android 4 just to unbrick the phone somehow...
 
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