Accessing my sd card to unroot phone - Help!

[9191-H]

I cannot access my SD card since rooting my phone. My root went through successful as I don't have any problems but I wanted to switch to a different hack so I'm trying to unroot phone. So my problem is, when I plug my LG optimus V into my computer, I don't have those two options anymore (the debug one and whatever the one said). Yeah, debugging is selected under development, just no longer the option to select it when plugged in. I'm wanting to put a recovery, flash image .zip so I can recover back to a factory reset. Thanks

 

[bjzapp]

I made the mistake of unrooting myself because a bad recovery was flashed...havent attempted to reroot as of yet.
id suggest deleting the files via your PC then gingerbreak again.
id b interested in others' posts as well

 

[bjzapp]

Make sure the correct LG driver is installed....well Alltel/Sprint actually from what I had read
Found in the reference guide I believe

 

[drezliok]

you shouldn't need to unroot. i think it's generally accepted that you once you root you can't go back and you can never use the factory reset. it will brick your phone.

 

[anon(395747)]

you shouldn't need to unroot. i think it's generally accepted that you once you root you can't go back and you can never use the factory reset. it will brick your phone.

Not true. You can always unroot your phone and revert back to stock. I've done it many times when the OV was my primary phone.

Now doing a factory reset after unroot and revert, I have not tested. And obviously doing a factory reset on a rooted and custom ROM'd and recovery will brick your phone.

 

[9191-H]

Didn't mention this before, but I'm trying to do this on my friend's phone, the Ice cream sandwich hack i put on his phone he didn't like and wanted to switch to another type. He didn't mention that he wiped the SD card trying to revert back to a factory reset. So right now the phone isn't bricked but stuck with the ice cream sandwich with no files. Then he tried to unroot it in superuser, so he created a few problems. Is there a quick way to delete all the files on the sd card and also take the phone back go back stock?

Or point me to a step by step?? Thanks for any help!

 

[bjzapp]

Im kinda a novice at all this as well but what your saying dosent make sense to me... I mean, as far as anything further with what he/you did with it---its not an sd issue..its now a rom thats installed internally without a proper recovery. Id guess it pretty much done unless you possibly get the market and apps up again...idk

 

[9191-H]

Yeah, I realize its not the SD card anymore. I was hoping i could get the phone back to stock so I could change the rom to another. That's unfortunate. :/

 

[bjzapp]

What recovery do u have/using?

 

[9191-H]

Since the sd card was wiped, there are no recovery on the card now. Is there a recovery I can download? I tried to redownload the gingerbreak and flash gui stuff as if I was gonna root it for the first time but i keep getting error reports. Tried to reboot and try again but with no success. Is this a lost cause now?

 

[bjzapp]

You need to power off ---then power bk on holding the power,volume down,and home buttons. Releasing them when the LG logo appears..then reply bk and tell us what recovery shows up...

 

[9191-H]

CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.5 is what i see at the top and bottom. Is this what you are looking for?

 

[anon(395747)]

The SD card is just there for the recovery to pull off .zip and backups/restore.

You got a custom recovery on there. Great. A perfect one too. How to: Return your Optimus V to Stock(Tested working) - SDX-Developers Forum

Follow those steps. One modification you have to do in order to revert back to stock. Instead of having the folder for the recovery to read the back up from, "nandroid/mem=477M". It is "clockworkmod/backup". You will have to create the folders manually by connecting the phone to the computer or doing a back up of the ROM that is on the phone now.

If you want the stock recovery back on the phone, do a shell root to gain temporary access so you can flash the recovery using adb. (What I had to do.)

 

[9191-H]

From the directions I was linked to.

"1) Extract the "BCDS-20110203-0357" file into the "nandroid" folder, under the "mem=477M" subfolder.
2) Boot into recovery
3) Go into the "Backup/Restore" menu, and select "Nand Backup"
4) Allow it to restore
5) Reboot! System should be stock
6) To unroot, open up Superoneclick Root, and select "unroot"\

I made the clockworkmod and backup folder. On step 3, it says select "Nand backup" in the backup/restore menu. I'm in that screen now, but I'm not sure what to exactly select to get to the folder I made. Do I "install zip from sd card" and select the "choose zip from sd card" and select what I made? Sorry, just clarifying exactly what I should do there.

 

[anon(395747)]

Once you're in the backup and restore section, there shouldn't be a 'install from zip from sd card' option. Be sure that the stock backup that is downloaded is extracted from the .zip folder. Place the extracted folder on the phone in the corresponding folder location, clockworkmod/backup. You should see the name of the extracted folder once you go into backup and restore, then restore.

 

[riggerman]

Use the backup and restore option. Select restore then select the file you want.

 

[9191-H]

When I click restore it says at the bottom no files found. It won't let me select anything. The .zip is extracted in clockwork/mod folder.

 

[anon(395747)]

Did you forget to put the extracted folder in the backup folder? The recovery won't detect it unless it is in the back up folder.

Folder with in a folder basically.

clockworkmod/backup

 

[9191-H]

Sorry I'm not sure If I understand, right now the folder its sdcard/clockworkmod/mod/ and inside this folder are what I extracted from your link earlier (the flash image and stock recovery image, which is now called BCDS). The actual .zips that I downloaded aren't in there.

Wait, now that I re-read it again, I haven't made a /backup folder. What .zip do I extract into this? Or what goes into this folder?

 

[anon(395747)]

You've got the file location right, but the folder name is wrong. Simply just change 'mod' to 'backup' and if you did take out the extracted backup, throw it back in the folder. The only thing that goes in the /backup folder is the BCDS-something-something-something. Leave everything that has to deal with the recovery out. Just the BCDS folder should be in there.