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  1. elgecko

    Factory Reset

    I have a rooted Boost Stylo phone. I've been having some issues and thinking about factory resetting the phone. What concerns me with this, is that I have my phone rooted and made a few changes to the system directory. Since I'm on Boost and have no custom recovery and made changes to the system...
  2. elgecko

    Help Unfortunately moving on

    Specs: Rooted / Stock ROM Guess I'm moving away from the F3. I liked this phone for the price and had it around a year but it crapped out on me yesterday. Doesn't look like anyway to revive it. I have not changed anything on my phone for months as it was all working perfectly. Yesterday it...
  3. elgecko

    Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] No 3g/4g

    My phone needs a little help as I'm not sure what to do. (Don't want to create a bigger problem by experimenting, so I'll check here first) LG F3 Rooted Here's what happened. Used LTE2 Recovery App to wipe cache and dalvik cache. Pretty sure I had done this before without any issues. When I...
  4. elgecko

    Garmin Street Pilot on F3

    Garmin Street Pilot; I saw this a while back and thought it looked interesting. I do have a Garmin GPS, but do not always carry it with me. Google maps can work on the phone when you have service, but if you don't, then what? The wife and I got back from a trip, and I thought I'd look into...
  5. elgecko

    Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] [RECOVERY] LTE2 Recovery App now with Touch

    I saw this recovery before, LTE2 Recovery App now with Touch, but did not try it on my phone. Looks like some are trying it on the MetroPCS forum and it was working, so I went ahead and placed it on my phone. Can confirm a backup, have not tried a restore. MetroPCS Thread with download
  6. elgecko

    Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] Link2SD and GL to SD are your friends

    This phone is a bit low on user app space, not as low as the Optimus V which I started with. Link2SD is a great program for rooted phones to move your apps to your ExtSD card. Be sure to Google how to properly set up your SD card to use the program. Another life saver is GL to SD, again you...
  7. elgecko

    Root Need help to return my OE 100% stock

    Been trying to unroot and replace CWM recovery with 100% stock software. Information that I found is several months old and some threads say there are easier way to go about it. One way I try is this one: How to Flash LG Optimus Elite to Stock - LG Cell Phones Blog One issue I have is that...
  8. elgecko

    Root (THEME) - Gecko

    Here's a yellow theme - Gecko - for the OE. Flash in Recovery Mode - Install zip from sdcard. For Leslie Ann's Harmonia ROM. - Dragon GO Launcher EX Theme Only good for ROM version noted Theme Gecko OE Harmonia 2.03 - Corrected signal.zip Fixed For some reason the network icon does not...
  9. elgecko

    Root (THEME) - Blue Marble

    Here's a blue theme - Blue Marble - for the OE. Flash in Recovery Mode - Install zip from sdcard. For Leslie Ann's Harmonia ROM. - Oceanus GO LauncherEX Theme - Ocean HD Live WP Only good for ROM version noted Theme Blue Marble OE Harmonia 2.03ver1 - Corrected Signal.zip - New Icons...
  10. elgecko

    Dismal battery life?

    Need to find what's keeping my phone awake and sucking the life out of it. So I have my Elite set up pretty much the way I had my V with using the same widgets on my home screens. I know that widgets can suck battery power to use, but never really had issues with the battery life on the...
  11. elgecko

    WIFI Connection

    How is others Elites connecting to there WIFI? Mine at home can take 2 to 4 minutes to connect. I usually have to hit the scan button to finally get a connection. At work it hooks up in seconds. The thing I'm thinking is my SSID is hidden at home. Going to unhide it shortly and see if it...
  12. elgecko

    Root Need a little help....

    I bought an Optimus Elite and activated it. So I wanted to revert my little V back to unrooted - stock so that I could sell it. I installed the NAND backup I had of the stock ROM right after I rooted the phone. I used Gingerbreak to unroot it. It appeared to do that as SU was gone. I then...
  13. elgecko

    Downloading all Apps? How to turn off feature?

    I just got this tablet 2 days ago. Looked at it a bit yesterday and some more today. My problem is I had another tablet with a bunch of apps installed. The Samsung now is downloading every app I had on the other tablet. While I do want a lot of the apps, I do not want them all and can not figure...
  14. elgecko

    Great free app today for the outdoors people 4/26

    Just a heads up for anyone interested. Especially the outdoors people. Amazons free app today is Audubon Birds. Amazon.com: Appstore for Android
  15. elgecko

    Root Pretty-N-Pink BACKside Theme

    I've been using the BACKside ROM since mid January and really like the performance of the ROM. This last build 03132012 is really running best of any so far. I did not give the wife much of a choice in flashing her phone with the 03132012 build (was still stock other then rooted) and making her...
  16. elgecko

    Root Blue Marble BACKside theme

    I decided to make my own thread on the Blue Marble Theme that I made for JerryScript's great BACKside ROM. If there seems to be enough interest I'll keep uploading new versions of the Blue Marble theme when the BACKside ROM is updated. Many of you may make your own themes thanks to...
  17. elgecko

    Help Custom Ringtones for Contacts

    I had this question buried in a different thread and decided to make a post just for this question to get it more noticeable and hopefully get an answer. I have all the ringtones that I want to use for my contacts on my phone on the SDcard under a folder named media / audio / ringtones I'll...
  18. elgecko

    Root Lots of questions; Space issues, Overclocking, Custom ROMs

    I have several questions for you people here: About my phone: Model: Optimus V ROM: Stock Rooted: Yes Android: 2.2.1 Version: VM670ZV4 Screen: Novatek (Read how to determine this yesterday from this great...
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