Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum but I've been looking ALL over it for a solution to this problem and haven't found any so far. So here's what happened.
I had rooted my OV a couple months ago and added a custom ROM and then left it in a drawer because I got a new phone. Recently, I took it out to give it to a friend and by my now realized mistake, I factory reset the device. After this, using CWM 4.0.1.5, I flashed a xionia.zip file onto it. Once flashed, I rebooted the device. And here's where it gets a little... unique versus the other posts I've seen.
The device starts up and shows the LG screen, goes blank for a few seconds, then displays a picture of the Android robot in the background and an arrow coming out of a box as the background. In the foreground, there is text saying:
Android system recovery...
Do not pull out the battery!
Formatting data...
Formatting cache...
After that, CyanogenMod 9 starts up and takes me to the home screen and all seems to be well. However, there are no gapps and all forums tell me to flash the gapps.zip to get them. The problem is, I can't flash anything because every time I boot up, even if I press the buttons to get into recovery mode, it goes straight to that Android system recovery and starts up CM9 instead of showing me ClockworkMod.
What can I do?
I'm new to this forum but I've been looking ALL over it for a solution to this problem and haven't found any so far. So here's what happened.
I had rooted my OV a couple months ago and added a custom ROM and then left it in a drawer because I got a new phone. Recently, I took it out to give it to a friend and by my now realized mistake, I factory reset the device. After this, using CWM 4.0.1.5, I flashed a xionia.zip file onto it. Once flashed, I rebooted the device. And here's where it gets a little... unique versus the other posts I've seen.
The device starts up and shows the LG screen, goes blank for a few seconds, then displays a picture of the Android robot in the background and an arrow coming out of a box as the background. In the foreground, there is text saying:
Android system recovery...
Do not pull out the battery!
Formatting data...
Formatting cache...
After that, CyanogenMod 9 starts up and takes me to the home screen and all seems to be well. However, there are no gapps and all forums tell me to flash the gapps.zip to get them. The problem is, I can't flash anything because every time I boot up, even if I press the buttons to get into recovery mode, it goes straight to that Android system recovery and starts up CM9 instead of showing me ClockworkMod.
What can I do?