Root Possibly bricked lg optimus v?

[brotherswing]

And yes, the ~# is fine.

 

[bigsupersquid]

Can you translate this part? I wanna do it right and im sorry for asking to have your posts translated for me @squid

Andalso do I type said commands even with the squiggle line and # there?

you get the ~# once in adb shell, so skip the "adb shell" line once you see the ~# prompt and type the rest.

you won't need to mess with busybox since your recovery works enough for adb.

 

[Rc1993]

May I remind the next poster to bears in mind im in a black recovery screen usb connected with the command prompt like so..

C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb shell
(squiggle line here) # (heres my typing cursor)

 

[bigsupersquid]

You got it.
From a command prompt, type this

adb shell

...snip

then you will see the ~#.
next type or copy/paste:

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard
flash_image boot /sdcard/vrecovery.img
reboot

immediately to flash a previous backup or a new rom.
once the rom boots you can use flash_image gui (hit the android market for this) to flash that vrecovery.img
the important thing is not to risk borking your adb access until you can boot into a working rom.
@Andy, feel free to translate!
If you need to, the above code can be copied and pasted into the command prompt. DO NOT REBOOT OR PULL THE BATTERY UNTIL YOU FLASH A NEW ROM. That would put you right back here, but worse.
Sorry for the heavy editing, Squid.

looks good, except a battery pull is no big deal.
the recovery will stay as the /boot partition until it's overwritten.
I'd not have posted the post above if I'd seen this one I'm quoting!

 

[brotherswing]

May I remind the next poster to bears in mind im in a black recovery screen usb connected with the command prompt like so..

C:\SDK\platform-tools>adb shell
(squiggle line here) # (heres my typing cursor)

Good thing to point out to those who don't know. By the way, the "squiggle" is called a tilde and it's just to the left of the "1" key on your keyboard. It has it's roots in Unix, like most of the arcane voodoo we've been having you type.

 

[Rc1993]

I type in the second command after adb shell and it shows this

mount /dev/block/mmcblkOp1 /sdcard
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblkOp1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory

 

[Rc1993]

Also im not using the internet on my computer im using a cell phone to ask and receieve info

 

[bigsupersquid]

I type in the second command after adb shell and it shows this

mount /dev/block/mmcblkOp1 /sdcard
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblkOp1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory

syntax error
it's a zero, not capital o, after blk and before p1

 

[Rc1993]

Same error message

 

[bigsupersquid]

before the mount command:

mount -o remount / /
mkdir /sdcard

if it still errors, take off the p1 from the sdcard mount line and try that.
should that not work, post the output from

ls /dev/block/
ls /

 

[AndyOpie150]

I think you did a bang up job of translating(better than I could have). I'm going to have to crash early, busy day tomorrow.
You and bigsupersquid have got a handle on how to fix the OP's problem.
Y'all will probably have it fixed before I wake up. This has now gone beyond my understanding but will read up on this to see how things came out and to learn.

 

[brotherswing]

Squids got the know how, I'm the Guru-to-noob translator. I know Linux, but this is just a little but different in subtle ways.

 

[Rc1993]

they gave me errors except for the last.
I cant put a tilde so ill sub with a @

@ # ls /dev/block/
Loop0 loop4 mtdblock0 mtdblock4 mtdblock8 ram3 ram7
Loop1 loop5 mtdblock1 mtdblock5 ram0 ram4
Loop2 loop6 mtdblock2 mtdblock6 ram1 ram5
Loop3 loop7 mtdblock3 mtdblock7 ram2 ram6
@ # ls /
Ls/
Boot etc sd-ext
Cache init sdcard
Data init.rc sys
Datadata proc system
Default.prop res tmp
Dev root ueventd.goldfish.rc
Emmc sbin ueventd.rc

 

[Rc1993]

I had posted longer spaces but it undid itself

 

[brotherswing]

mount /dev/block/mtdblock1 /sdcard
try that.
Oh, and remember, everything you type when doing this is CaSe SeNsItIvE!

 

[Rc1993]

The output was the same as the input, that right?

 

[bigsupersquid]

the mtdblock devices are nand. (built-in phone partitions)
here's the map for those: (informational purposes only)

dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00700000 00020000 "boot"
mtd1: 06e20000 00020000 "cache"
mtd2: 00700000 00020000 "recovery"
mtd3: 00140000 00020000 "splash"
mtd4: 00100000 00020000 "FOTA_STO"
mtd5: 0a480000 00020000 "system"
mtd6: 0b2e0000 00020000 "userdata"
mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "misc"
mtd8: 00180000 00020000 "persist"

it isn't recognizing your sdcard.
there should be a mmcblk entry in /dev.
you can force this to work without a card since you have adb.
from command line, outside the adb shell,

adb remount
adb push vrecovery.img /system/
adb shell
flash_image boot /system/vrecovery.img
reboot

will hopefully put you in recovery, to restore a backup or flash a rom.
post further errors, please.

 

[Rc1993]

What doyou mean by outside adb shell?

 

[bigsupersquid]

your regular prompt, not the ~# one.
if the prompt is still ~#, type
exit
to get out of adb shell.

 

[Rc1993]

Ok good and bad news,
BadNews I had the sd card out and just realized it
Goodnews I went through all past steps with same results, EXCEPT for this input

@ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard

(with this as an output)

Mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on sdk card failed: device or resource busy

I deeply apologize for wasting so much time.

 

[bigsupersquid]

s'alright.
bet you're learning a lot!
it's saying the card is busy, so it's probably already mounted.
skip that line and try again.

edit: instead of skipping the mount line, try adding this line before the mount command:
umount -l /sdcard

 

[Rc1993]

I tried to dismount then this output

Unmount /sdacard
/sbin/sh: unmount: not found

 

[bigsupersquid]

I tried to dismount then this output

Unmount /sdacard
/sbin/sh: unmount: not found

another syntax error.
it's umount instead of unmount.

 

[Rc1993]

Oh ok my bad.
Ok I have thelse output the same ask the input now what?

 

[bigsupersquid]

cool.
what's the last command you entered?