Optimus V stuck in recovery

[Savagetiper]

Hey, First of all, I would like to say I know there is a **** ton of these threads and I have read most of them and still having trouble. This is my first android....or smart phone in general and I bought it used. I had no clue it was rooted and when I went to restore it back to original, I got stuck in the recovery loop for this RA-Thunderc-1.1.0-GNM. I tried this http://forums.androidcentral.com/op...astboot-style-fastest-easiest-way-around.html but i couldn't get it to find my device. He says to turn it on and I can't really turn my phone on, at least passed that recovery menu.

God, I got a headache. I have been messing with this for the last 3 hours cause I NEED my phone for work tomorrow. I would GREATLY appreciate any help.

 

[mmarz]

Place this on your micro sd card and flash it through the recovery: Xionia_CWMA_12518.4_VM_Recovery.zip

It will change your recovery and fix the recovery bootloop.

 

[Savagetiper]

So I downloaded it and extracted the zip to my SDcard. Now how do I flash it through recovery?

 

[mmarz]

So I downloaded it and extracted the zip to my SDcard. Now how do I flash it through recovery?

No. Place the zip file intact on your sd card. Then use your recovery's flash zip function to flash it.

 

[Savagetiper]

nvm. got it. Thanks a **** ton man,

 

[mmarz]

It fixed the recovery boot loop?

 

[Savagetiper]

hmm. Now its stuck on the android screen...?

 

[mmarz]

hmm. Now its stuck on the android screen...?

Now you'll want to flash the rom that you want to use. The privacy screen factory rest feature screws up your system.

 

[Savagetiper]

Okay, its working now. So what do I want to do? Like I said, first droid. What rom should I use?

 

[mmarz]

Try them out yourself and see which you like. It only takes a few minutes to flash a different one. As long as you don't change recoveries and don't use the privacy screen factory reset, you'll be fine. You'll want to use the recovery's Wipe Data/Factory Reset in between flashing new roms. That setting is always safe to use.

 

[dfortuna1995]

Thanks SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much mmarz i was at this forever no joke i appreciate it so much its not even funny

 

[dopey123]

Thanks SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much mmarz i was at this forever no joke i appreciate it so much its not even funny

This helped me as well - my phone was "bricked", stuck in a recovery loop with the thunderc recovery image. After following the directions above it was back to life.

 

[megakid90]

Try them out yourself and see which you like. It only takes a few minutes to flash a different one. As long as you don't change recoveries and don't use the privacy screen factory reset, you'll be fine. You'll want to use the recovery's Wipe Data/Factory Reset in between flashing new roms. That setting is always safe to use.

What would happen if you wanted to flash clockwork recovery again

 

[bigsupersquid]

xionia should have cleared the boot loop, and if it did, clockwork should work again.
you could also use a "fakeflash" clockwork recovery from a running xionia recovery;
that's a flashable zip that doesn't really replace your existing recovery but kind of runs on top of the existing recovery kernel.

 

[megakid90]

So its safe to regularly flash clockwork? And is it bad that my phone rebooted like I flashed a new rom when the battery fell out

 

[bigsupersquid]

So its safe to regularly flash clockwork? And is it bad that my phone rebooted like I flashed a new rom when the battery fell out

if your regular boot goes right into the ROM instead of going through the LG recovery where it says 'formatting blah blah rebooting' first then you should be able to flash clockwork like normal.
if you get that 'formatting...rebooting' message on startup, try this
sorry about the delay, forum showed this thread as read even though it wasn't.