[How-to] Brick Your Optimus V

[anthonycr]

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!!!!

 

[drewwalton19216801]

OMG this is POTY (post of the year) quality right here. This is too damn funny. But so true!

I really hope nobody does this by following this guide...

 

[epidenimus]

Where's the mega-like button?

Now if only there were a one-click app to do this for me...

 

[watskyhotsky]

can we somehow get the OV files taken off Rom Manager? that would help sooo much with the newbs

I dont even have an OV anymore but i keep coming back here to help with people who screwed up with Rom Manager...

 

[dwappo]

Right, it's weird that there's been an increase in bricked phones and it all comes down to listening to some dude on youtube instead of reading up on rooting/flashing, searching forums (it would lead you here), and reading the steps like 10-20 times before doing anything (and reading it while going through the steps). When I first heard of rooting and flashing custom roms, the only thing I messed up on was flashing Harmonia 1.7, I didn't flash the Pickasticks Kernel to make it work for my screen.

 

[watskyhotsky]

Right, it's weird that there's been an increase in bricked phones and it all comes down to listening to some dude on youtube instead of reading up on rooting/flashing, searching forums (it would lead you here), and reading the steps like 10-20 times before doing anything (and reading it while going through the steps). When I first heard of rooting and flashing custom roms, the only thing I messed up on was flashing Harmonia 1.7, I didn't flash the Pickasticks Kernel to make it work for my screen.

I find it very strange that more and more often do I see friends and family go to youtube to look up stuff from the internet more than google.

and they will still use the term "I need to google something" or stuff like that, but head right on over to youtube.....

 

[anthonycr]

can we somehow get the OV files taken off Rom Manager? that would help sooo much with the newbs

I dont even have an OV anymore but i keep coming back here to help with people who screwed up with Rom Manager...

I just emailed the dev that made rom manager and asked him to either fix the problem or make the app not work at all for the Optimus so that newbs would not be able to find it and break their phones.

 

[dwappo]

I think that's another problem with ROM Manager, lack of dev support.

 

[pbailey212]

I thaught it was how to fix a bricked phone, that was just worded funny. Nice write up!

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[Eollie]

I just emailed the dev that made rom manager and asked him to either fix the problem or make the app not work at all for the Optimus so that newbs would not be able to find it and break their phones.

I can tell you the response.

Those are the Sprint and Virgin Mobile variants of the P500. We don't support either, so if you have CWM for them it doesn't come from our repos...

 

[anthonycr]

I can tell you the response.

Darn. Thats lame. If they cared they would make it so optimus users can't download it.

 

[anthonycr]

I think that's another problem with ROM Manager, lack of dev support.

Maybe if we all flood the Dev with emails, he'll listen.

 

[epidenimus]

Maybe if we all flood the Dev with emails, he'll listen.

I can't help grinning at your idealistic innocence here.

Look, I don't like to talk down on anyone in the Android community, but the dev (Koush) for this app seems like kind of a... [rhymes with Koush].

He purports his app to be universal solution for ROM-ing, without any mention of supported or unsupported devices:

Quote from ROM Manager Android Market Page

ROM Manager is THE MUST HAVE APP for any Android root user. (Over 3 million downloads and counting!)

Even though it bricks any number of devices and coalitions of concerned users and devs have sent him numerous e-mails, facebook messages, and comments... he does not respond or care. Further, there have been instances of him including the free work of other developers in his paid application without their consent.

The way this guy handles himself speaks volumes.

 

[CuriousNoob]

Help! My phone bricked.


Am waiting for a comment like that...

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[epidenimus]

Help! My phone bricked.

Am waiting for a comment like that...

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Hey! That's kinda like sitting outside in August waiting for a mosquito to bite.

 

[CuriousNoob]

Hey! That's kinda like sitting outside in August waiting for a mosquito to bite.

LOL, good reference.

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[anthonycr]

I can't help grinning at your idealistic innocence here.

Look, I don't like to talk down on anyone in the Android community, but the dev (Koush) for this app seems like kind of a... [rhymes with Koush].

He purports his app to be universal solution for ROM-ing, without any mention of supported or unsupported devices:

Quote from ROM Manager Android Market Page

ROM Manager is THE MUST HAVE APP for any Android root user. (Over 3 million downloads and counting!)

Even though it bricks any number of devices and coalitions of concerned users and devs have sent him numerous e-mails, facebook messages, and comments... he does not respond or care. Further, there have been instances of him including the free work of other developers in his paid application without their consent.

The way this guy handles himself speaks volumes.

I can't help myself!! Idealism is what gets things done one the world!!!

 

[one80oneday]

Most forums have a sticky, in bold, at the top saying ROM manager will brick your device. I used to use it because it was the quickest and easiest way to root and install CWM but don't dare to install ROMs using it. I've bricked and unbricked my phone more times than I could count, not very fun.

 

[anthonycr]

Most forums have a sticky, in bold, at the top saying ROM manager will brick your device. I used to use it because it was the quickest and easiest way to root and install CWM but don't dare to install ROMs using it. I've bricked and unbricked my phone more times than I could count, not very fun.

Ours doesn't so I made this guide in protest.

 

[Badboytoast]

Oh no I brick my phone following this guide, trying to root,flash recovery, once I stall rom manager I selected optimus c!!! Lol just playing. Hopefully NO ONE WILL FALLOW this brick guide