First I want to thank KSmithInNY for the How-To on the Rooting, Recovering, ROM post for Optimus T that’s sticky’d. I did everything there and it worked like a charm.
First, I am a noob at this. Seriously, I’ve had my Optimus T for less than 2 weeks and after reading everything and examing posts from here to androidforum and xda-developers solved a lot of problems that a noob would run into, and I think I ran into a LOT of them.
Think of it as kind of a noobs guide to helping other noobs from the guy who stumbled over everything:
1. Rooting: There are 2 [How-To]’s out there for the optimus on this website. The adb way (non sticky’d) and the rooting without touching a computer (sticky’d). USE THE one that’s sticky’d, there’s a reason why they sticky’d it. So you’ll be using z4root. Don’t bother with the adb way unless you kind of know what you’re doing, I got everything up and running but could never get past the rageinthecage-wait for it to disconnect and reconnect part (1 day of my life gone, but not wasted since It introduced me to using adb).
2. DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT Uninstall LG Home 2.2 if you are using Titanium. Most of you are saying “of course not, this guys an idiot.” Yes I am. This is needed to give you that nice 5 screen home with the wallpaper. It’s what you need when you push that home button. Uninstall this and you going to be looking at a black screen and pulling you hair out when your backup you made (thanks to KSmithInNY’s How To-you’re a lifesaver) doesn’t want to load. GOOD LUCK trying to find LG Home 2.2 and loading it on your phone, the best I could get was an LG Home 1.1 and it was horrible and unstable but it got me something workable (thanks to brnf2008). If you found please reply where, otherwise you need to recover if you want it back.
3. So you didn’t listen to me or you want to recover from the images you made and it’s not working. IF you tried everything else in the forums and it didn’t work and you got the same errors I list then go to #4 for what I did. I am grateful to everyone who posted their problems and those who posted solutions. It was painful but I learned a lot!
a. The Optimus T backup images I made didn’t have a recovery.img. Other sites for other versions of Optimus and other phones say there are like 6, but I only had the cache, data, boot and system plus the nandroid.md5 in my nandroid folder. It’s enough. Don’t worry.
b. When I tried to do a Nand recover I got “Error: run ‘nandroid-mobile.sh” via adb!” When I followed the orders and ran this in adb I got errors about sdcard not mounting and aborting. Then I tried “cd sdcard” which worked to change the directory, but still got sdcard not mounting errors again and aborting. It was mounted I checked on recovery menu.
c. I tried to flash a Stock-Factory-Optimus-t-flash by trying to “Flash zip from sdcard” from the system recovery menu. Didn’t work because there were no signatures. After Toggling Signature verify in the “other” menu I then got another error, I forgot already what it was, but I abandoned this method.
d. I tried copying the .img in the nandroid folder to the root of sd and trying to recover that way, no good. I even tried flashing from adb using fast boot with those specific .imgs for system, cache, etc. I almost bricked my phone!
e. [edit] i did wipe several times. rebooted several times, pulled the battery out many times, and wiped some more.
f. I was considering flashing with V10L_00KDZ as a last resort before I found my solution.
4. I know that seems like a short list, but it equals about 2 full days of my life. And I know that each case is different and you may have gotten success, but it seems like every rabbit hole I went down by following replies and posts led to unanswered questions. So my answer: change or reformat your SD card:
a. Copy everything from your SD card to your computer
b. Get a new card or reformat your current on a computer (fat32)
c. Copy everything to the new or newly reformatted SD card (at LEAST the Nandroid folder)
d. Boot to recovery mode
e. Go to Backup/restore and do a Nand restore.
Again thanks to everyone helping each other out, I learned a lot and I know my solution is already out there, but I just wanted to compile my woes into one post to prevent other noobs from doing the easter hunt like me.
First, I am a noob at this. Seriously, I’ve had my Optimus T for less than 2 weeks and after reading everything and examing posts from here to androidforum and xda-developers solved a lot of problems that a noob would run into, and I think I ran into a LOT of them.
Think of it as kind of a noobs guide to helping other noobs from the guy who stumbled over everything:
1. Rooting: There are 2 [How-To]’s out there for the optimus on this website. The adb way (non sticky’d) and the rooting without touching a computer (sticky’d). USE THE one that’s sticky’d, there’s a reason why they sticky’d it. So you’ll be using z4root. Don’t bother with the adb way unless you kind of know what you’re doing, I got everything up and running but could never get past the rageinthecage-wait for it to disconnect and reconnect part (1 day of my life gone, but not wasted since It introduced me to using adb).
2. DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT Uninstall LG Home 2.2 if you are using Titanium. Most of you are saying “of course not, this guys an idiot.” Yes I am. This is needed to give you that nice 5 screen home with the wallpaper. It’s what you need when you push that home button. Uninstall this and you going to be looking at a black screen and pulling you hair out when your backup you made (thanks to KSmithInNY’s How To-you’re a lifesaver) doesn’t want to load. GOOD LUCK trying to find LG Home 2.2 and loading it on your phone, the best I could get was an LG Home 1.1 and it was horrible and unstable but it got me something workable (thanks to brnf2008). If you found please reply where, otherwise you need to recover if you want it back.
3. So you didn’t listen to me or you want to recover from the images you made and it’s not working. IF you tried everything else in the forums and it didn’t work and you got the same errors I list then go to #4 for what I did. I am grateful to everyone who posted their problems and those who posted solutions. It was painful but I learned a lot!
a. The Optimus T backup images I made didn’t have a recovery.img. Other sites for other versions of Optimus and other phones say there are like 6, but I only had the cache, data, boot and system plus the nandroid.md5 in my nandroid folder. It’s enough. Don’t worry.
b. When I tried to do a Nand recover I got “Error: run ‘nandroid-mobile.sh” via adb!” When I followed the orders and ran this in adb I got errors about sdcard not mounting and aborting. Then I tried “cd sdcard” which worked to change the directory, but still got sdcard not mounting errors again and aborting. It was mounted I checked on recovery menu.
c. I tried to flash a Stock-Factory-Optimus-t-flash by trying to “Flash zip from sdcard” from the system recovery menu. Didn’t work because there were no signatures. After Toggling Signature verify in the “other” menu I then got another error, I forgot already what it was, but I abandoned this method.
d. I tried copying the .img in the nandroid folder to the root of sd and trying to recover that way, no good. I even tried flashing from adb using fast boot with those specific .imgs for system, cache, etc. I almost bricked my phone!
e. [edit] i did wipe several times. rebooted several times, pulled the battery out many times, and wiped some more.
f. I was considering flashing with V10L_00KDZ as a last resort before I found my solution.
4. I know that seems like a short list, but it equals about 2 full days of my life. And I know that each case is different and you may have gotten success, but it seems like every rabbit hole I went down by following replies and posts led to unanswered questions. So my answer: change or reformat your SD card:
a. Copy everything from your SD card to your computer
b. Get a new card or reformat your current on a computer (fat32)
c. Copy everything to the new or newly reformatted SD card (at LEAST the Nandroid folder)
d. Boot to recovery mode
e. Go to Backup/restore and do a Nand restore.
Again thanks to everyone helping each other out, I learned a lot and I know my solution is already out there, but I just wanted to compile my woes into one post to prevent other noobs from doing the easter hunt like me.
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