Alright I rooted my phone and I started messing around with the apps, and I ended up deleting the LGHome.apk, then background theme was gone, I could only use the browser and the dial to make calls, after a while it froze and I rebooted the phone and now I'm stuck in the Android screen, I can't do nothing with my phone! Please, somebody help me solve this! how can I get the Home app back?
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Root HELP! I accidentally deleted LGHome.apk
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Misleadb4
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http://androidforums.com/optimus-m-...u-deleted-important-system-app-look-here.html
Try this
Hope this helps.
thanks but as I said, I can't access my phone, when I turn it on it gets stuck at the android welcome screen, I have to take out battery to turn if off.
I don't know how will I be able to download one of those apps and install it on my phone?
maybe doing a factory reset will help? but I don't know how to do that.
could you give a little more details on that? what is adb? how do I use it?
sorry, I don't know much about rooting phones or this kind of stuff.
thanks for your help.
I don't have access to gmail from my phone, I can't get past the Android logo screen(the one that comes after the metro pcs logo) so I don't have access to my phone AT ALL!
ADB is what we use to connect to our devices from a pc through direct access.
I will simple say that you can access your filesystem from your computer through recovery, mount your system partition as writeable, and copy over the LGhome.apk from the rom that you used. the LGhome.apk i have available is from my 2.2.1 phone so I dunno if that will work.
you can open any stock rom and look around in it, look in /system/app/ and extract LGhome.apk
If you installed the custom recovery, Boot into this(from powered off, press and hold Home, Vol Down, and then power, hold these till you enter the recover menu. use the volume keys to move around, and either menu or camera button to select the option, back to go back)
go the the option with mount, mount /system, then in your adb window you can type "adb LGhome.apk /system/app/"
these are basic details, for more in depth being-prepared-adb-drivers-more-dont-forget-tp
I will simple say that you can access your filesystem from your computer through recovery, mount your system partition as writeable, and copy over the LGhome.apk from the rom that you used. the LGhome.apk i have available is from my 2.2.1 phone so I dunno if that will work.
you can open any stock rom and look around in it, look in /system/app/ and extract LGhome.apk
If you installed the custom recovery, Boot into this(from powered off, press and hold Home, Vol Down, and then power, hold these till you enter the recover menu. use the volume keys to move around, and either menu or camera button to select the option, back to go back)
go the the option with mount, mount /system, then in your adb window you can type "adb LGhome.apk /system/app/"
these are basic details, for more in depth being-prepared-adb-drivers-more-dont-forget-tp
can you do a step-by-step explanation on this?
I boot into system recovery and I mount it but still my computer does not detect it.
I have the "RootOptimus2.2.2" that I downloaded from this same website, there is a file call "Adb" but when I run it a command prompt opens up and immediately closes.
I click on "RunFirst" and then "Install LG Stock Recovery" and nothing happens neither.
sammyz
LG Whiz Kid
to use adb you must:
Open Command Prompt by opening "Run" type in cmd and press ok
If you have windows 7, just press the Windows logo key+r, type in cmd and press ok
Once you have opened cmd:
type in (with quotes):
cd "(location of folder that adb is located here)"
Example:
if adb is located on your desktop and you have windows 7, you would use this command:
cd "C:\Users\Name-of-user-you-are-logged-in-as\Desktop"
If you were on windows xp:
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Name-of-user-you-are-logged-in-as\Desktop"
after that you type:
adb **command here**
the actual commands that you need, idk what they are, but this is how to use adb
Forgive me if i seem short, but the reason people usually try to avoid redundantly give the same info out, is that when you try to search the forums, you get alot of random post that are just tid bits oh the whole process.
like I said in my post, search the forum for optimus M stock roms, download this and open it, it's just a zip file. In this file you will see a folder called system. In that folder you will see app. the Filesystem for android is based on unix, which linux is a "free" version of. So the Root of your File system on android will be "/"
so the file in the rom zip will be in directory /system/app/
the full path will be /system/app/LGhome.apk
you can navigate to this folder and just drag the file out to extract it. where ever you pulled the file out remember the file path.
Reboot your phone into recovery from the powered off state by holding menu, vol down, and then holding enter. Hold these till you see the recovery boots up. navigate the menu to the mounts with the volume buttons, and depending on the recovery you are using, press home or the camera button to make the selection. Find the option that says "mount /system"
once this is done you can connect the usb. open your command terminal and issue this command "adb push C:\PATH\TO\LGhome.apk /system/app" where C:\PATH\TO\LGhome.apk is the Directory path to LGhome.apk.
if this file is on your desktop you can do "adb push %Userprofile%\Desktop\LGhome.apk /system/app/"
after this is done issue the command "adb shell reboot" if all is well, your phone will be good to go.
if you have a recovery that does not support mounting the system partition, there is a command to mount it through adb shell.
You could always reflash the rom, but learning to fix stuff the hard way is how you will really learn
and I do see the error in my first post "adb LGhome.apk /system/app/" should have been adb push LGhome.apk /system/app/", I'll fix that for good measure
forgive me if i seem short, but the reason people usually try to avoid redundantly give the same info out, is that when you try to search the forums, you get alot of random post that are just tid bits oh the whole process.
Like i said in my post, search the forum for optimus m stock roms, download this and open it, it's just a zip file. In this file you will see a folder called system. In that folder you will see app. The filesystem for android is based on unix, which linux is a "free" version of. So the root of your file system on android will be "/"
so the file in the rom zip will be in directory /system/app/
the full path will be /system/app/lghome.apk
you can navigate to this folder and just drag the file out to extract it. Where ever you pulled the file out remember the file path.
Reboot your phone into recovery from the powered off state by holding menu, vol down, and then holding enter. Hold these till you see the recovery boots up. Navigate the menu to the mounts with the volume buttons, and depending on the recovery you are using, press home or the camera button to make the selection. Find the option that says "mount /system"
once this is done you can connect the usb. Open your command terminal and issue this command "adb push c:\path\to\lghome.apk /system/app" where c:\path\to\lghome.apk is the directory path to lghome.apk.
If this file is on your desktop you can do "adb push %userprofile%\desktop\lghome.apk /system/app/"
after this is done issue the command "adb shell reboot" if all is well, your phone will be good to go.
If you have a recovery that does not support mounting the system partition, there is a command to mount it through adb shell.
You could always reflash the rom, but learning to fix stuff the hard way is how you will really learn :d
and i do see the error in my first post "adb lghome.apk /system/app/" should have been adb push lghome.apk /system/app/", i'll fix that for good measure
wow i finally fixed it! Thanks!