this is my first post on androidcentral, but i'm very grateful to have joined. i just want to explain a few things before i ask any questions. over the past two days i've gone through hell and back with my optimus s. i purchased it in april 2011 and decided to root just last week by using gingerbreak. to root my phone, all i did was save the apk on my sd card, installed it on my phone from astro, and ran it. just pressed buttons on the screen. i thought it was supposed to be that easy.
i realized i was lacking some things (like busybox) but chose to ignore them, so i attempted to flash CM7 the first time using this video. this was successful, and i had created NAND and Google proprietary backups, but i had no idea how to get my settings, contacts, music, and apps back *facepalm*.
so then i installed rom manager and the built in clockwork recovery mod........ and i think i attempted to re-flash CM7 with this, thinking everything would be fixed. i was, obviously, terribly wrong.
when i tried to restore everything from clockwork, my phone would take forever to boot. and when it finally did, i had to call my phone number just to unlock the screen. (by the way everytime i hung up, i kept getting 'google services framework process: com.google.process.gapps' has failed/forced close or something like that) but still the screen was blank (as in black, with no icons, wallpaper, etc., except for the notification bar. i couldn't access recovery mode after that because the screen would return blank. all i could do was unlock the phone by calling, and then connect the phone to my computer via usb.
at this point i was about to give up, i thought my phone was bricked. but i knew that it couldn't be because it was still functioning, and i could still receive calls. so all night i searched on this website, until i found these wonderful posts:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...70vc-vd-using-kp500-diag-mode.html#post655188
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...g-ota-ls670vc-vd-using-kp500-diag-mode-4.html
those reverted my phone to LS670MV9 and got rid of the blank screen. i followed the steps from the first link until t)exit the LG Mobile Support Tool and KP500 (option Q) (didn't do u-v). instead i decided to continue with the steps from the second link to get my screen working.
i think this is where i made a mistake. once everything was alright and working i used this to root my phone. that link was only supposed to work with LS670ZVD, but i unknowingly used it on LS670MV9.
. . .
so now my phone is rooted, and on LS670MV9 -_-" i guess when i was following the steps from the first link, i should have completed u-v, then see if the blank screen would persist.
what i'm wondering now is if i can install CM7 in this current state, using the method from that video, or perhaps this or this..
or do i have to unroot and do all these other crazy things? all i want to do is have CM7 on my optimus s, at least functional. i'll wipe my phone and everything, i still have nandroid, appsaver, and titanium back ups on my computer, if that will help. and according to root checker i have root access and busybox. i'll provide more information if needed.
so what must i do? to properly run CM7 and have all of the same applications and settings from my pre-root days? i know this was an extremely long post, but i have little experience with rooting, flashing, etc., and i just wanted to make my previous noobish actions and goals as clear as possible.
thank you for reading!
i realized i was lacking some things (like busybox) but chose to ignore them, so i attempted to flash CM7 the first time using this video. this was successful, and i had created NAND and Google proprietary backups, but i had no idea how to get my settings, contacts, music, and apps back *facepalm*.
so then i installed rom manager and the built in clockwork recovery mod........ and i think i attempted to re-flash CM7 with this, thinking everything would be fixed. i was, obviously, terribly wrong.
when i tried to restore everything from clockwork, my phone would take forever to boot. and when it finally did, i had to call my phone number just to unlock the screen. (by the way everytime i hung up, i kept getting 'google services framework process: com.google.process.gapps' has failed/forced close or something like that) but still the screen was blank (as in black, with no icons, wallpaper, etc., except for the notification bar. i couldn't access recovery mode after that because the screen would return blank. all i could do was unlock the phone by calling, and then connect the phone to my computer via usb.
at this point i was about to give up, i thought my phone was bricked. but i knew that it couldn't be because it was still functioning, and i could still receive calls. so all night i searched on this website, until i found these wonderful posts:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...70vc-vd-using-kp500-diag-mode.html#post655188
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...g-ota-ls670vc-vd-using-kp500-diag-mode-4.html
those reverted my phone to LS670MV9 and got rid of the blank screen. i followed the steps from the first link until t)exit the LG Mobile Support Tool and KP500 (option Q) (didn't do u-v). instead i decided to continue with the steps from the second link to get my screen working.
i think this is where i made a mistake. once everything was alright and working i used this to root my phone. that link was only supposed to work with LS670ZVD, but i unknowingly used it on LS670MV9.
. . .
so now my phone is rooted, and on LS670MV9 -_-" i guess when i was following the steps from the first link, i should have completed u-v, then see if the blank screen would persist.
what i'm wondering now is if i can install CM7 in this current state, using the method from that video, or perhaps this or this..
or do i have to unroot and do all these other crazy things? all i want to do is have CM7 on my optimus s, at least functional. i'll wipe my phone and everything, i still have nandroid, appsaver, and titanium back ups on my computer, if that will help. and according to root checker i have root access and busybox. i'll provide more information if needed.
so what must i do? to properly run CM7 and have all of the same applications and settings from my pre-root days? i know this was an extremely long post, but i have little experience with rooting, flashing, etc., and i just wanted to make my previous noobish actions and goals as clear as possible.
thank you for reading!