New to Rooting? Want to break your newly purchased Optimus?
Follow these steps and you'll be well on your way to having a lovely dead phone that can be used as a chew toy for your dog.
Step 1: Root your Phone (Theres numerous ways to do this and unfortunately theres not a huge risk of breaking your phone here)
Step 2: Download Clockwork ROM manager. This is one of THE best apps out there that is capable of singlehandedly breaking your phone... Muhahaha!!!
Step 3: (This is important) attempt to flash a recovery using ROM manager. If youre lucky, you will be unable to see the recovery when you try to boot into it because you have a new 2.2.2 optimus with a new screen, or better yet, ROM manager didnt flash anything. If you can see your recovery and it flashed correctly, you probably wont be able to break it. Sometimes trying to flash a rom and a recovery at the same time will also do a decent job of bricking your phone.
Step 4: Now that you are panicking because you booted into recovery and only have a black screen, the best possible thing to do is to pull the battery and boot the normal way. Then slowly find FACTORY RESET in the settings and click on it. This will effectively wipe the ROM off your phone and you will be unable to turn the phone on.
With the afore mentioned steps completed, you will have an entirely unusable phone. You will hopefully not be able to boot into recovery and hopefully your ROM will be completely wiped. Now you don't have to feel bad when you let your dog chew on it
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All that said... I don't take any responsibility if you do break your phone, because all those steps are almost a surefire way to do it.
My Real advice to noobs: READ ALL THE OTHER THREADS THOROUGHLY!!!!
Follow these steps and you'll be well on your way to having a lovely dead phone that can be used as a chew toy for your dog.
Step 1: Root your Phone (Theres numerous ways to do this and unfortunately theres not a huge risk of breaking your phone here)
Step 2: Download Clockwork ROM manager. This is one of THE best apps out there that is capable of singlehandedly breaking your phone... Muhahaha!!!
Step 3: (This is important) attempt to flash a recovery using ROM manager. If youre lucky, you will be unable to see the recovery when you try to boot into it because you have a new 2.2.2 optimus with a new screen, or better yet, ROM manager didnt flash anything. If you can see your recovery and it flashed correctly, you probably wont be able to break it. Sometimes trying to flash a rom and a recovery at the same time will also do a decent job of bricking your phone.
Step 4: Now that you are panicking because you booted into recovery and only have a black screen, the best possible thing to do is to pull the battery and boot the normal way. Then slowly find FACTORY RESET in the settings and click on it. This will effectively wipe the ROM off your phone and you will be unable to turn the phone on.
With the afore mentioned steps completed, you will have an entirely unusable phone. You will hopefully not be able to boot into recovery and hopefully your ROM will be completely wiped. Now you don't have to feel bad when you let your dog chew on it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All that said... I don't take any responsibility if you do break your phone, because all those steps are almost a surefire way to do it.
My Real advice to noobs: READ ALL THE OTHER THREADS THOROUGHLY!!!!