Help CWM LOOP! HELP!

[Jose Flores]

Please help. I have the LG Volt (obviously - sprint version by the way) and i accidentally upgraded to ZV5...and when i did...Afterwards, it just got stuck on cwm recovery! I have tried everything. I wiped the data/factor reset. I wiped cache. I backed up and tried to restore. I wiped dalvik cache. I tried to use a custom. The ZV4 rom and even that way, it was still on CWM Loop. I also tried a zip file that was meant 2 help you get out of recovery. Nothing has worked! Nothing! Plz help!

 

[bg4m3r]

You have to go all the way back to zv3, unfortunately.

 

[Jose Flores]

You have to go all the way back to zv3, unfortunately.

Do you have the zv3 rom?

 

[bg4m3r]

http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/6842076

 

[Jose Flores]

http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/6842076

I tried the zv3 rom in the forum, but when i go 2 cwm...all it does is say installation aborted. I also found the zv3 rom for the LG Volt on LG Open Source. But theres 3 files. I'm not sure what file 2 download, so I can get out of bootloop. There's one called ZV3 kernel. Another called lg zv3 android 1 and the last one is lg zv3 android 2. Which one is it?

 

[bg4m3r]

You need to read the directions in the post I linked. You do not flash with cwm. You have to completely downgrade with a computer. Those files are not going to help you... It's not a ROM... That's the source code for the OS.

Basically you're going to have to wipe your phone and start over. Just follow the guide all the way through.

We believe this happens because cwm screws something up when it installs the update, which is why the guide is going to have you install TWRP. Not that installing an OTA update will ever be safe on a rooted device with custom recovery.

 

[Jose Flores]

I'm not done reading through the whole thing (I will) but it worked! I'm out of bootloop! Thank you so much! I tried LG Flash tool, but now I know what i was doing wrong! Thank you so much for the help! I will never update on a rooted phone until I know it's safe and possible.

 

[bg4m3r]

No problem. This is the first time I've seen an update brick a phone. Zv4 just killed root, but that was before we had a flashable recovery. I'm sure if you'd had stock recovery, it would've been fine, but you would've lost root and had to go through this anyway to get it back.