My optimus v rooting

[d-fitzpatrick]

part 1: love from the internet (aka read these)

1} [FIX]Black screen with custom recovery and custom roms

2} [HOW-TO] Simplified Root + Recovery + Custom ROM

3} Custom Recovery Optimus V

4} Flashing the new CM7 Gapps

part 2: get ready

first get your downloads in order.

GingerBreak APK

flash_image

your chosen recovery from bigsupersquid's sticky [FIX] (for convenience rename your recovery to recovery.img)

your chosen rom from bigsupersquids's sticky [FIX]

andriod terminal emulator (download from market to your phone)

The gapps for you rom

part 3: do it to it

1. Follow steps 1-3a in Whyzor's [HOW-TO]

2. copy your recovery.img, rom zip to the root of your sdcard (also gapps if you want all the google goodies)

3. open terminal emulator. type "su" then enter (if asked to allow then yes)

4a. enter code: try bigsupersquids [FIX] first

4b. only for if 4a. doesn't do it <<<read all of this step before doing any of it>>>
at this point I had installed rom manager so I had to copy the flash_image to the root of my sdcard then enter getitnowmarketing's code
<<<important notes>>>don't bother with the 4th code line:mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak)
replace the 6th code line with flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

5. in terminal emulator type "reboot recovery" (I list this as the command line is not in getitnowmarketing's)

6. Follow steps 8-11 in Whyzor's [HOW-TO]

* all props go to bigsupersquid, Whyzor and getitnowmarketing