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This page will grow over time, and this page is not an endorsement of rooting your phone, but it is meant to serve as a resource for those who want to root the LG Optimus V properly.
You can do serious damage to your phone and you will void your warranty by rooting.
Rock That LG Optimus V takes zero responsibility for any harm done to your phone by rooting or attempting to root the LG Optimus V.
All that being said, please enjoy the resources below!
If you have a link or video suggestion, please leave a comment.
Resources for rooting your LG Optimus V:
- Rooting for Dummies from Android Authority
- XDA Developers How To: Root Optimus V Forum Thread
- XDA Developers Gingerbreak APK (one click rooting) Forum Thread
- Optimus V Wiki’s Rooting Your Optimus V (using supeoneclick)
- Android Forums’s Optimus V – All Things Root Forum (great for newbie questions/answers)
- Android Forum’s Optimus V Rooting, Roms, Tutorials thread
- Andronica - How to Understand Root Terms and Procedures
Videos of Rooted LG Optimus V phones:
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if i were to root my lg optimus v, what all can i do with it. a lot of my friends have been talking about rooting things and i seem to be the only one who hasn't had anything rooted. will anything bad happen to my phone afterwards?
There is a lot that can go wrong with your phone – I highly recommend checking out the resources on this page. Get in on the forums, ask questions, and weigh the risks. It will void your warranty.
The Gingerbreak APK link i followed and followed the directions. Worked like a charm. No problems. Very happy. Thanks for posting this.
You are welcome!
To root and flash CM7 directly on the phone:
-Download Gingerbreak
-Get Rom Manager
Flash Clockwork recoverymod
Download CM7 from Rom Manager
-Download Astro file manager
-Go to Astro, and put the CM7 Rom on the "root" of the SD card, which means selecting edit, and moving it to the homescreen.
-Go to Rom Manager, and select Flash Rom from SD Card.
-Check all three boxes, backup current rom, clear cache, and clear data (unless your rom is already backed up)
The phone turns off, ymmv, but for me the lg icon came up, and then the screen went black. I took out the battery, thinking nothing happened, and did this a couple times. In reality, I think it wasn't working because I hadn't yet moved the ROM to the root of the card, but reguardless, when I got to the black screen, I held down home, vol down, and power, for a while, I also pressed the camera button, and Wa La, it loaded to CM7 gingerbread.
-Currently overclocked to 749, with Overclock Widget, as at 806 my phone would restart.
-Now their is a red LG icon after the first LG icon when starting up.
-Very snappy, smooth, nice options.
-Emails stay in notification bar until you open them, and volume, location, data, wifi settings are available from notification screen.
-One other thing I noticed, Browser (Chrome) is only 1.5 MB instead of 7 or whatever it was on Stock Froyo. Don't know if this was chache or whatever, but the file was noticably smaller.
Hope this is helpful!
I had tried before, without success, but the key was placing the rom in the root of the sd, out of folders.
Thanks to all the app developers, Billy Cui for overclock widget, and whoever made the CM7 available on Rom Manager. Thanks Koush for Rom Manager, and whomever I found the Gingerbreak file on (don't remember the forum). Thanks to the advice from whomever ( I think on a Droid Eris sight) about putting the rom on the root of the card.
Good Luck
Cool, I'll publish it as a guest post sometime this week to give it a little more press
Also, I forgot to mention Superuser, and possibly needing BusyBox, as I had it installed. First how-to so spare me!
Basically just need to grant permisions to superuser for rom manager, from the rom manager app if not done when installed.
Superuser is pre installed on CM7
Before I decide to actually root my LGOV, I'd like to know just how much internal memory can be freed up by removing the “bloatware”? I'm not looking for the exact amount possible but an estimate would be nice to know. I only want to root if I can free up some internal memory and would like to hear from people that have actually rooted their LGOV. Thanks!
You can free up most of the \”bloatware\” space by uninstalling any \”updates\” the bloatware apps have and setting them to not auto-update in the market. This makes giants like Ubersocial about 1.5mb. You can add up the total mb of space the bloatware apps occupy just by looking in the applications menu and sorting by size. Doing the first thing I suggested makes the bloatware take up less than 10mb, which I can deal with.
So simple yet I never would have thought of that. Thanks for the info!