Re: [ROM] Harmonia 1.6.1c (Aphrodite+Picasticks) 21Sept11
Hello there!
I'm hoping that the issue that I'm having is just some silly noob problem. I'll be the first to admit that I've never rooted/modded/ect ect a phone before.
For many of us this is our first phone doing this sort of thing as well (myself included), no shame there.
Flashed into recovery, wiped, wiped the.. d-something or other, as directed, and then loaded the rom with rom manager.
Install went great, restarted phone as instructed.
so, what to do now? I've restarted it a few times (By pulling the battery, the power button does not seem to do anything once in this state.) and went through this same process, and the battery finally died, so I'm letting it rest.
Please don't say bricked.
You are boot looped and it's not serious. The fact that it boots as far as it does means you are in good shape, chances are something just didn't install properly.
I haven't used Rom Manager (which is actually somewhat safe with Harmonia but I don't recommend it) so I will explain how to do it the "old fashioned" way. Which is a better method as far as i am concerned anyhow.
First I would say yank the battery in order to turn it off, but since yours died, no worries there (every toy needs batteries right?). Second, if you haven't yet, copy the zip file to your SDcard. I suggest running an md5 check on it as well, but it is not necessary. I recommend it, but almost never do. Worry about it if you continue having problems. Now, start your phone by pressing home, volume down and power, hold them until you see LG on the screen. This will put you in recovery mode.
Now the preferred method of installing a rom...
Normally I would tell you to "wipe data/factory reset (this is safe to do here) and then go into advanced and "wipe Dalvik cache". Since you already wiped it out though, you probably can skip that. Since you already cleaned everything (we hope), just select "install zip from SDcard (or similar), choose the zip file, let it work, the reset.
Do not use apply update or anything about update, you just want to flash the zip file.