V10 Bootloop - Can you recover anything...?

[Z Fury]

So my V10, which is about 1 week shy of 2 years old, started the infamous bootloop issue yesterday while I was replying to an email. The app froze, the power button did nothing, etc. Pulled the battery for a hard restart, and it freezes at the Life's Good screen - you all know this by now.

I did have an SD card in the phone, and was able to recover about 99.9% of the stuff I needed/wanted from the dead device. My question is, if I needed a file that was on the phone's memory (not on the SD card), is there any way to get 1 final boot out of the phone and maybe 2 minutes of time...? There is one file (work related) that is fairly important that I get, and I'm exhausting myself researching how others dealt with this. I've read that if you chill the phone, you can get it to boot. I've also read that heating up the phone so the processor reconnects to the mobo will get it to boot. Has anyone tried any of those things, and if so, what was your result?

I've already got a new phone, as I need it for work and really can't be without while it gets repaired, so I don't need a long-term fix. I basically need to jump start the phone for one last 2-3 minute burst so I can get the file loaded up to Dropbox and then it can head off into the sunset.

Any advice/tips are appreciated. (Sorry for making another bootloop thread...)

 

[kixfan]

I have read where people have had success by putting the phone in the freezer for a bit and rebooting while in the freezer. Sent mine in for repair before it actually bootlooped but was just running really hot so I didn't get a chance to try it. Worth a shot for you though. This won't solve your problem but LG will fix it for free if you go to the support site and submit a ticket specifically mentioning bootloop in the problem description. Good luck to you in retrieving the file. I hope it works.

 

[Z Fury]

Probably worth a shot. And if it doesn't work, the hair dryer option could still be tried (after allowing the phone to come back to room temperature on its own, of course).

 

[datum9]

I tried the freezer for hours to no avail. No difference.