[al.csar]

Does some body know how to do the master reset HARDWARE KEYS with this phone?

[al.csar]

As far as I know there's a way on every android to do a master reset with the hardware keys in case you block yourself out.

I found this steps but they DON'T work for me:


Reset using hardware key

1. Turn off the phone by pulling out the battery and put it back in.

2. Press and hold the Down Volume button.

3. Then press and hold on the Power button until you see the device switch on.

4. An on-screen instruction shall appears, and offer you the options to Fastbook, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock. Use the Down Volume key and select Clear Storage.

5. Next press the let go of the Power button.

6. Confirm your choice by select Yes or No. Using the Volume key to make your selection.

Your LG Optimus Black should now begin to reset itself back to default manufacturer settings

LG says the only way is doing a "Software updation", any Ideas? I just can't believe there's no way to do it, what if I want to clear the system cache with the boot menu.

[OakIris]

I don't have the phone, but I did a google search and found this info about doing a hard reset: From the comments, the method doesn't seem to have worked for many people, but it might be worth a try....

Holly

[al.csar]

Finally after emails and emails sent to LG tech support. (No accurate answers by the way).
I found out there's no way to do a master reset with the hardware keys, they only way to restore the system if you locked the phone will be the lg support tool (which doesnt work properly). and you cannot clear the system cache...
Unbelievable, what's going on with lg?

[OakIris]

Finally after emails and emails sent to LG tech support. (No accurate answers by the way).
I found out there's no way to do a master reset with the hardware keys, they only way to restore the system if you locked the phone will be the lg support tool (which doesnt work properly). and you cannot clear the system cache...
Unbelievable, what's going on with lg?

Sorry to hear that, al.csar. I agree that it doesn't make sense that LG hasn't provided a hardware workaround for their Optimus Black phone.

Also unfortunate that LG tech support is so clueless! This site shows that you are certainly not the only one that found LG tech support very lacking indeed: (Maybe LG modeled their department after VM's tech support, which is also quite useless according to everything I have read about it. )

Holly

[a_droid]

there is no key combination to reset the Black
but there are some mods which make you able to reset this Black or get into recovery (red:CWM) which known as eRecovery

do some research

regards

[lesp4ul]

there is no key combination to reset the Black
but there are some mods which make you able to reset this Black or get into recovery (red:CWM) which known as eRecovery

do some research

regards

Remove battery, press VolDown+Power then plugged usb port did worked for me but it doesn't have any menu, just 'sw update' screen. So i must use KDZ tools to flash it.

Now I'm using CWM 5 with eRecovery patch it worked flawlessly.

Sent from my Optimus Black using Tapatalk

[Huexxx]

It's a shame but there's no key combo.

With CM7 you can try my eRecovery (look at xda) but it doesn't manage to recover all the possible situations, like kernel-related issues.

Regards.

[Paul Anthony Villaruz]

I had an experience yesterday with this problem with Optimus Black...The problem with the posted solution here our phone does not have a Home button so this solution not fit with ours, however upon experimenting things I do discover that in replacement for home button we can use the button at the left side of phone (Gesture Button) here how it will go.

-Turn off your phone.
-Hold Volume down together with G button.
-press the power button while still holding the Volume down and G button until it powers on.

there you card reset your optimus black with key combo

I hope this could help to others.

[Paul Anthony Villaruz]

Dude try to turn off your phone then hold together the volume down and the g button (Gesture button) then power it on while holding still the volume down and G button until it turns on