Wait, I have another procedure for you... Try this:
1. Download
KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.zip and unzip in a folder somewhere
2. Download
Drivers and install
3. Download
KDZ file and copy in the folder you extracted the upgrade tool
4. Install msxml.msi from the upgrade tool's folder, reboot
5. Run KDZ_FW_UPD.exe, select "CDMA" in type and "Emergency" in Phonemode
6. In KDZ file select the KDZ file downloaded above
7. plug in phone, wait for all drivers to install if any, Click "Launch software update" and pray!
If any of the combinations work, please post here so we can use it as a primary fix for bricked phones. If it doesn't, post error logs please!
Again, hope we can fix this for you.
Hi karendar. I did the above process using my gf's winxp laptop. I had to use the original KDZ that I dumped as the one I downloaded did not appear to work - probably a faulty download on my part. We should start posting md5sums of our uploads for safety purposes.
Anyway, following the above procedure, I got through to step 7. It unpacked and started flashing. Then the flashing program crashed, leaving my phone in emergency mode. All was not lost, however.
When I rebooted the phone, it got past the LG logo to the Telus logo, then stayed there for about 10 minutes.
I got bored, and tried rebooting with vol-down+home+power to get into recovery. Amazingly, the old recovery partition was still there, so I loaded my last nandroid backup (my 2.1+updated kernel). This still booted fine, except that the radio no longer worked.
Alright, so I go back to the recovery partition, perform a user data wipe, and flash the zip containing the my recent version of the alpha 2.3.3 rom you posted. Reboot. It works! including radio. (yay!).
Last step, back in the recovery partition I reload my last nandroid backup (my 2.1+updated kernel), and then without wiping my data, flash your alpha 2.3.3 rom. Reboot.
It does the data migration phase and everything on the phone appears to be working.
Conclusions:
1) The first thing the flasher program flashes is the radio - if that succeeds, then failure elsewhere is not important.
2) The radio and the kernel are not linked - I was using the same kernel in both roms... that means that the files needed to utilize the radio are in system.img someplace. This may mean that finding this file and backporting it to the 2.1 rom will allow a sort of downgrade option which preserves the new radio and kernel.
3) By the same measure, if we can narrow down the files in the new system.img that are essential to using the hardware, we should be able to port in much of CM7 (it uses the same kernel version).
Cheers
Was a nice run while it lasted!