Root Custom ROM on LG Shine Plus

[TheSobadef]

Alright, well, I'm considering installing a custom rom on my LG Shine plus, since they both have an Aloha mobo, and similar specs

I know it isn't safe, but I'm extremely curious to find out if it will work

 

[death2all110]

Make sure you back up your rom via recovery!

 

[Trident]

If you send me a stock nandroid, I'll whip up a basic rom for ya'll.

 

[TheSobadef]

Sure! But mind helping me out with that? i got someone else to "sort of" help me out, but... I tried following this post (his) and it ended up resetting my phone to stock...

http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/221382-custom-recovery-optimus-s-thunderc-sprint.html

 

[TheSobadef]

And a Velocity port would be great

 

[getitnowmarketing]

Sure! But mind helping me out with that? i got someone else to "sort of" help me out, but... I tried following this post (his) and it ended up resetting my phone to stock...

http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/221382-custom-recovery-optimus-s-thunderc-sprint.html

You used the wrong thread. Booting stock recovery does a data wipe on your phone. Sorry I was at the park with kids that day and couldn't help much.

Directions to give me what i need are.

You need a rooted phone 1st.

You can either use adb or terminal enumlator app from market.

from adb shell or terminal on phone

su
 
cat proc/mtd

verifiy that mtd2 is named recovery.

assuming that recovery is mtd2 on shine plus as it is on ally:

dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd2 of=/sdcard/recovery-dump-shine.img bs=4096

if its mtd1 or mtd3 then change the dev/mtd/mtd2 part above to the correct partition

you will now see a file called recovery-dump-shine.img on your sdcard.

Please upload that for me as thats all I need and if followed exactly will do nothing but dump a copy of your stock recovery to sdcard and nothing else. Sfter you upload the dump for me I'll build the shine plus a recovery to allow it to have custom roms. If you want a velocity port you will need a custom recovery first to be able to flash it.

 

[TheSobadef]

mtd0: boot
mtd1: system
mtd2: recovery
mtd3: lgdrm
mtd4: splash
mtd5: misc
mtd6: cache
mtd7: userdata

 

[dsi]

Hi guys,

I'm dsixda from xda-developers. I just got an LG Shine Plus as a secondary phone for my vacation.

Here's the recovery.img and boot.img for getitnowmarketing to try:
shine_recovery_boot.zip

Looking forward to a custom recovery image

 

[death2all110]

We appreciate this dsi!

 

[dsi]

Mission accomplished

http://androidforums.com/lg-shine-plus/231498-custom-roms-shine-plus-finally-here.html#post1962049