[How-To] Root the LG Optimus V

[Zeldster]

Hm... strange, it didn't say the couldn't find file or directory now when I tried it.. and I didnt change anything from what I did last time.. It works DD rooted now!

 

[cpshelley2]

Hm... strange, it didn't say the couldn't find file or directory now when I tried it.. and I didnt change anything from what I did last time.. It works DD rooted now!

lol, glad it sorted itself out

 

[Odd_Duck]

I bought an Otimus V ... Worked great for a month, even got it rooted ... Then comes the Plop from dropping it in the toilet ... it worked for a few days but the battery kept getting worst and worst ... I went out and bought a new Optimus V ... Well I can't get the new optimus rooted, so i thought about using my old phone again. the battery is working better even holding a charge now and everyting else is almost fine ... I now re-swapped my phones under Virgin Mobiles swap phones section ... my 'old' phone can make calls but i have no internet ... and my new phone still has internet ... also Virgin told me to do ##VIRGIN# or whjatever to re-setup my phone but it wont let me into that section.

Any help would be appreciate'd,
Thanks,
-Odd

 

[Odd_Duck]

Hey all,
I still can't get into the ##VIRGIN# section of my phone ... I have cyogens root i guess you call it , but my internet has switched over ... thanks

-Odd

 

[Odd_Duck]

me again, more questions ...

Under portable wifi hotspots i try to turn it on but it says error then when i go to configure wifi it askes for Network SSID i have no idea what to put in here, any help?

-Odd

 

[sk8dayfuknight]

Why do you have to root with cmd's? I didnt use any

 

[Deal Trees]

Worked like a charm, THANK YOU!!

 

[comes132]

Superoneclick is telling me my phone already has root permissions when I've never rooted it before. Did I miss a step or something?

 

[Blarphengar]

Cephalic Carnage!

Thanks for the guide, everything worked to perfection! Now, time for some overclocking goodness...

 

[Mavrck1127]

adb reboot

adb reboot didn't work for me but adb reboot exit did just thought I'd throw that out there. Kinda a noob with the whole phone rooting thing don't know if that'll help anyone.

 

[Antonio199426]

Yes you can i found out along with others users all those steps aren't necessary follow my youtube link YouTube - Root lg optimus v phone from virgin mobile

 

[Antonio199426]

Hello if you need help rooting your virgin mobile lg optimus v phone i can help. I have found out that all those steps aren't necessary my method will help you permanently root your optimus v phone follow my youtube video YouTube - Root lg optimus v phone from virgin mobile

 

[MacFett]

Sounds like you may have forgotten to unzip the attached file into your platform-tools directory.

This was my problem too. Once I did this, so far so good.

Very good tutorial. I have seen a few others that were fine if you knew what you were doing already and needed an unsteady guiding hand. Yours is great all the way through. Although the link for Superone Click I couldn't get to work, I had to register for the forum. I already had it downloaded though.

I would love to see a 2nd part that is, "What To Do After You Root." That shows how to do things such as move phone only apps to SD card (only reason thus far I have rooted) and other uses.

 

[notmebug]

HELP! When i put in the chmod 4755 su
it said Unable to chmod su :No such file or directory

for anyone else having this problem: you forgot to type: adb push busybox /system/bin
if you're in adb shell type exit then type that. then type adb shell then try chmod again. This happened to me and this was why. worked fine after that.

 

[spaids]

ok guys I don't know how you did it but you walked me through this. Awesome!

 

[locovagra]

ok when running super one click I get to this point and it just hangs out... any idea what I am doing wrong?

 

[locovagra]

it says I am rooted but when I go to run the cmd prompt commands I get no virtual android device.

 

[locovagra]

ok I'm making progress now I am stuck at the "555 busybox" command. any ideas? so close....

 

[lala2]

Hi my question is how do I install the android 2.3 on my optimus v? and will how do I get back my virgin mobile service?

 

[MacFett]

ok I'm making progress now I am stuck at the "555 busybox" command. any ideas? so close....

Type ls at a clear prompt and ensure that you copied busybox to the phone. Looking at the command you've entered thus far it doesn't appear that your pushed it to the phone.