New and Need of help.

[Radar2004]

I just rooted the phone, installed rom manager and stalled the clockwork recovery. I selected the I.H.O CM7 and rebooted the phone. I get passed the I.H.O with the android logo and into the android animation but it then stops. For a few seconds in goes into a loop. from the IHO android to the animation. I decided to go into recovery mode, but I just get a blank screen. I saw that you can fix that problem but I can't even get into the phone. Did I brick? or is there another way around it?

 

[JerryScript]

I'm assuming you are using a recently purchased Optimus V. Those purchased in the past few months require a different set of drivers in the kernel. See this sticky post for more info:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/113762-fix-black-screen-custom-recovery-custom-roms.html

 

[Radar2004]

I got that, but where do I put them? I can't even get into the phone to replace anything. Or just use a card reader and replace what files?

 

[JerryScript]

Use adb to push the files to your card.

Here's a great post with all the info you should need beyond the new screen info in the other thread:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/79336-reference-guide-optimus-v-modding-read-get-started.html

And here's info about ADB commands:
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=ADB

 

[Radar2004]

Do I run recovery or let it stay on? Because again, I don't get pass the the IHO splash screen and I don't get anything on the recovery mode. So how does adb work if it can't recognize the phone?

 

[JerryScript]

Have you installed the LG drivers and the Java sdk?

If so, boot into recovery by holding down home_key+volume_down+power for about 15 seconds. Don't worry if you don't see anything on the phone's screen. Plug your phone into your pc's usb port. Open a command prompt and cd into the android sdk platform-tools folder. Type adb shell. This should connect you to your phone if you have everything installed and setup properly. If so, continue:

Type exit to get back to your normal command prompt. Download this recovery file and put it in the platform-tools directory.

Back in the command terminal, type:
adb push VM670NH_recovery.img /sdcard/VM670NH_recovery.img

Once it's done (takes a bit), type:
adb shell

This should give you a prompt with a # sign. If it's a $ sign, you aren't rooted, stop now, if it's a # sign, type:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/VM670NH_recovery.img

It should flash your new recovery in less than 30 seconds. If you get an error, stop.

If it flashed without error messages, type exit, then unplug your phone, and pull out the battery. Put the battery back in, and boot into recovery again (holding down home_key+volume_key+power). This time, if all went well and the drivers were the issue, you should see the recovery menu after 30 seconds to a minute. Now you can hook your phone up to your computer and use the recovery menu to mount the sdcard, drag and drop a ROM zip file onto it, and be sure you have a copy of gapps zip file as well.

Once everything is on there, right click on the sdcard on your computer and choose eject, then unmount it on the phone. Next, wipe cache and under advanced, wipe dalvik cache. Next, format boot, system, data, and cache.

Now your phone is wiped and ready to install your new ROM. Choose install zip from sdcard, DO NOT CHOOSE UPDATE! Find the ROM zip file and flash it. Repeat with the gapps zip file. Once both have been flashed, go back to the main recovery menu and select reboot.

Your phone will take longer than normal to reboot, be patient (up to 4-5 minutes first time).

If you have a problem at any step along the way, let us know and we should be able to help you out.

 

[Radar2004]

I got failed with error: -1. Error opening /sdcard/recovery.img

 

[Radar2004]

Nevermind. It is fix. Thank you very much!

 

[JerryScript]

Glad you got it working!