[Q] Lg Optimus V (New screen) Help! Black screen, no adb shell, some recovery menu - Optimus One, P500, V General

So i have been stuck at the black screen for days. Searching online for answers and no luck. I am on the brink of just returning but i won't give up yet. So i got the new lg optimus v on black friday and rooted it. I installed busybox and superuser and clockwordmod. I put recovery from clockwordmod. Then being dumb at the time, i clicked factory reset. Now, i get black screen after the lg logo pops up. I look online and use androidscreencast. I use that to find out that i have recovery, but i can't see it because of those hittachi drivers. So, what i do is these instructions
Nandroid Instructions:
1) Extract the "BCDS-20110203-0357" file into the "nandroid" folder, under the "mem=477M" subfolder.
1a) For Clockwork Recovery, place the "BCDS-20110203-0357" file in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
2) Boot into recovery
3) Go into the "Backup/Restore" menu, and select "Nand Restore"
4) Allow it to restore
5) Reboot! System should be stock
6) Go below and flash stock recovery
Recovery Instructions:
1) Download flash_image and the stock recovery and nandroid back up
2) Extract stock recovery.img and flash_image to the root of your sdcard
3) Open up an adb shell, or terminal emulator on your phone
4) Enter the following codes:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery
right so now it worked. i then flashed a new rom i think. reboot and it works right? WRong. It loads up but I CAN"T SEE IT. I can hear the virgin mobile saying and androidscreencast shows me the android logo before crashing on me.
So i find out that i can do everything on it but can't see it. SO i go back to recovery with the 3 finger method. home + volume down + power. So then i decide to flash a new recovery.
So i go to adb. I type adb devices. IT shows my device and says its in recovery. Now i can't see it. So i try to use androidscreencast and it comes with an error.
Error attachment at the bottom for androidscreencast.
So i skip that and go back to adb. I try my last hope and try adb shell. Now that comes up with an error.
Error attachment at the bottom for adb shell issue.
Please if anyone could help with good detailed instructions. I don't want a link, some of those are super confusing. I need a good step by step instructions because i may be missing something and i don't know if that is the case.
EDIT: So i started with clockworkmod recovery menu some werid version. Then i put the recovery i was given here . Then after that i flashed this stock optimus v. The new recovery i flashed did not get rid of the black screen, i was still using android screencast. So, now when i boot up into "recovery" i don't know what to press or do and since android screencast + adb aren't there for me. I will have to do it blindly, but i need help.

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Sorry to bump, but anyone help me?

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To see if the recovery flashed right but isn't visible, boot into recovery, wait about one minute, press camera, then menu, then home. Depending on which recovery those are the select keys.
if the phone reboots after pressing those keys, the recovery works. Otherwise it didn't install right.
You can try
adb remount
Before
adb shell
to maybe get /system mounted for a shell prompt if recovery is broken.
Problems: the stock backup and recovery you flashed are for older ov's with a different screen driver, and stock recovery isn't rooted. Adb remount may not work unless you flashed the right stock zip.

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bigsupersquid said:
To see if the recovery flashed right but isn't visible, boot into recovery, wait about one minute, press camera, then menu, then home. Depending on which recovery those are the select keys.
if the phone reboots after pressing those keys, the recovery works. Otherwise it didn't install right.
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Ok i booted into recovery with the volume down + home + power button and let go when the lg logo popped up. I waited for 1 minute. I pressed the camera button first. No go , nothing happened. Then i pressed the home button (The button with the house on it). It then rebooted into android with the virgin mobile saying (I could hear it) So, recap I pressed home button and booted into black screen android couldn't see anything. Going to try adb when i get home.

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TheRookie16 said:
Ok i booted into recovery with the volume down + home + power button and let go when the lg logo popped up. I waited for 1 minute. I pressed the camera button first. No go , nothing happened. Then i pressed the home button (The button with the house on it). It then rebooted into android with the virgin mobile saying (I could hear it) So, recap I pressed home button and booted into black screen android couldn't see anything. Going to try adb when i get home.
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if it's stock recovery, adb will not work. if it's xionia recovery (might be, with the home instead of menu being select) you'll be ok with adb probably in recovery. if it won't work it'll say 'device not present' or 'connection refused.'
you'll probably have to turn on usb debugging blind in the blacked-out rom install to use adb to fix the recovery. Someone I helped with this some time back used a youtube video (here's the post) to find the right places to press on the screen to do that, then he was able to use android screencast to see recovery on his pc and fix it that way. if you can get debugging on, you can also use adb to fix it.

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UPDATE: I did it. I turned on usb debugging with the black screen. I got android screencast and ddms. I can see the screen through android screencast. Now i have no root. So .
1. Root i want a good root for Lg Optimus V (New Screen Hittachi Screen)
2. How to flash working recovery that i can see . I want direct link to the recovery so i don't screw up.
3. How to flash working rom that i can see. Same thing direct link i ain't screwing up now.
4. How to flash a working stock Lg Optimus V New screen rom that i can use.
5. Do i need a new kernal or just working recovery???

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nicely done.
you'll have to use screencast several times, then it'll get easier.
you'll need a few apps from market.
oi file manager to install apps from card.
flash_image gui to flash recovery
you need to check "allow install of non-market apps" under settings>applications
download gingerbreak 1.20.apk from here
copy it to your sd card. find it with oi file manager. click it and select install.
then run gingerbreak.
if you're lucky it'll work first try.
some people have had better luck using gingerbreak with the phone plugged into a pc.
it might take many tries if your phone is stubborn.
after it reboots, you can use flash_image gui to install this recovery
it's up-to-date and made to handle new or old screens.
then go to the iho thread herefor a gingerbread 2.3.7 rom, or Harmonia here
for froyo 2.2 rom.
both work without tweaking on your new screen.
both have install instructions in the linked threads.
after flash_image gui does it's thing you can turn off the phone and reboot into recovery
hold home+volume down, then hold power too, until after the silver lg logo goes away.
you could make a backup, it's normally advised.
use camera button to select.
good luck!

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Thank you Very MUCH!!!!
One question about flashing the recovery. Can i use adb or some other method of flashing that recovery. Like say adb. I saw this somewhere wondered can i use this instead of flash_gui apk.
# su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
# reboot recovery
Just wondering, it would be easier for me.

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Yes, definitely.
you'll need flash_image copied to the card like the recovery for that.
just change "recovery.img" to the actual recovery filename, or rename the recovery itself to recovery.img first.

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Thank You agian very much! I got everything working and i am running CM 7.2. Very happy that i don't have get another phone. Very very helpful.