Bricked phone & Clockwork recovery won't do anything

[scubaslim]

I'm going to start by saying I have no idea what I'm doing.

My wife was sick of her Optimus V running slowly. I rooted it awhile back just for the sake of freeing up internal memory. Today I tried flashing Harmonia 2. When the phone restarts, it just freezes on the Harmonia logo. I have restarted it in recovery mode, but Clockwork recovery won't do anything. No matter what option I choose, it just shows the clockwork logo, but nothing else. I have been researching for hours but haven't really been able to find anything that fixes my problem. Posts that I would like to try just lead me to dead links so I can't download anything.

Please help! and speak to me in easy to understand lingo. Thanks!

 

[anthonycr]

You need to use the camera button to select the option you want and use the volume buttons to navigate up and down

 

[scubaslim]

Well, that was easy enough. Everywhere I read said to use the home button. I tried to restore my backup, but it said it didn't work. So I flashed stockopv.zip from the recovery. It appeared to work, but when I chose to reboot the phone, it rebooted, but for the last 10 minutes it's just said "Android". it isn't frozen because the letters are moving a bit and every once in a while the screen flashes. Is it supposed to take this long the first time? or didn't something bad happen? any ideas?

update: i took the battery out and restarted it. it's still just looping on the android screen

 

[Conrail16]

Try holding down home,power, and volume down together after putting the battery back in to get back to your recovery. Do a factory reset in recovery, then wipe cache and Dalvik cache (this one's under the "advanced" menu). Then flash this: Harmonia_1.8_OV.zip It's Harmonia 1.8; a ROM that's been around long enough to be mostly bug-free. It if won't flash right, that means the problem is with your recovery...

And a ROM flash could take about 5 minutes or so. If it's looping for 10+ minutes, it's not working right

 

[scubaslim]

just saved my marriage! thanks!

 

[scubaslim]

can also flash harmonia 1.8 for the optimus slider? or is it just specific for the V?

 

[kwknott]

Nope it's for the optimus v. If you want a rom for the optimus slider I'd look over in that forum. The hardware between the 2 is different so I wouldn't try anything for the OV on the slider.