HOW TO: Root Optimus V (Virgin Mobile)

sd_matto · Feb 7, 2011

Would love to see your new ROM have BT DUN (and, optionally, BT PAN) functionality added to the ROM. Would make the phone a very competitive, lower-power-consumer alternative to MyWi On Demand (for jailbroken iOS), at cheaper unlimited data rates.

sublimewulf · Feb 8, 2011

What is the advantage to Bluetooth DUN over wifi tether? Bluetooth transfer rates are abysmal to say the least...

sd_matto · Feb 8, 2011

sublimewulf said:
What is the advantage to Bluetooth DUN over wifi tether? Bluetooth transfer rates are abysmal to say the least...

Redundancy (i.e., additional means of tethering, in case VM closes/taxes WiFi loophole), non-NAT'edness, and lower power consumption are probably the key advantages.

BT DUN transfer rates are not that much worse than WiFi. Especially at EVDO Rev A speeds. See, for example, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=371895. For LTE/WiMAX (4G), probably a different story.

There are a couple of key advantages that I see to BT DUN over WiFi:
1. (The BIGGEST, by FAR) Power consumption - a LOT less power consumed using BT DUN.
2. Non-NAT'ed connection (DUN gives you direct public IP, which should reduce problems associated with NAT'ed connections and some online games/applications; WiFi gives you NAT'ed connection). This advantage would disappear with a purely BT PAN solution.

Other than that, pretty equivalent. Number of potential connections is large by either method.

Hopefully, the above gives you motivation to kick this into your android ROM. Would love to see that additional BT functionality

badboi_zero · Feb 8, 2011

I haven't tried you custom ROM because it's a pre-alpha. Otherwise, I have used the deodexed one using your instructions without falter.
FYI, the stock, optimized ROM here has yielded faster Linpack results (as high as 9 mflops) over the RodimusROM by mmmark111. I'm looking forward to how your Subliminal ROM will fare to it.

bob50963 · Feb 9, 2011

Can anyone edit the file in charge of limiting the phones down and upload speed? I think my phone has been getting a download speed limit. I use to get around 1000kbs now I can barely get past 150. Anyways I hope there is more development coming in the future for this awesome phone. You can't really beat $25 a month and the service is 100x better than crappy cricket. I can't even drive around town on cricket with out it loosing signal.

dingnecros · Feb 9, 2011

I flashed the rooted and optimized stock rom but it does not seem to be rooted all application that need root access seem to hang up asking for super user

sublimewulf · Feb 10, 2011

bob50963 said:
Can anyone edit the file in charge of limiting the phones down and upload speed? I think my phone has been getting a download speed limit. I use to get around 1000kbs now I can barely get past 150. Anyways I hope there is more development coming in the future for this awesome phone. You can't really beat $25 a month and the service is 100x better than crappy cricket. I can't even drive around town on cricket with out it loosing signal.

There is no file that limits upload and download, That would be on the tower side. Sprint has it written in that they can throttle data as much as they'd like.

dingnecros · Feb 11, 2011

I finally solved my root problem... I flashed the rom again but had the same problem where all apps requiring root acess were just stuck at the super user permission screen. I installed the superuser app by ChainsDD in the marketplace (free version). I launched it and it said that it needs to update the su binary. As soon as I did that the original super user app that came with the rom now warned me that application is trying to launch sh as root:root and if I want to allow it - I said yes and now everything requring root acess is working but all su permissions are now handled by the new superuser app.

I am not sure if this is the right way to solve the problem or if I was doing something wrong with the previous application but it is solved and I just thought of sharing how I was able to get it working. The tether app and TiBackup work great

sd_matto · Feb 11, 2011

Two more suggestions for your ROM

I love what it has going on so far. A couple of suggestions for future add-ons:

1. Enable moving the dalvik cache from the /data folder to the /cache folder. Reason: Free up memory in /data, and allow for installation of more apps from market (and more working memory). See http://forum.sdx-developers.com/sam...-cache-to-cache-(save-memory-for-more-apps!)/ (for reason for idea).

2. As an additional tethering functionality (consistent with my request above for BT DUN), consider adding wi-fi adhoc functionality (as was done for the nookcolor (see this forum), and its source (see http://szym.net/2010/12/adhoc-wifi-in-android/)).

Thanks again.

greysonbotts · Feb 14, 2011

ok... i may have screwed myself...
i can only boot into recovery
i have tried a stock nandroid recovery... no change
this started when i accidentally clicked "start update" (i think) in phone properties
it rebooted into recovery and said "updating"... tried to reboot and it went back into recovery
i'm kinda new to this but i can follow directions (obviously because i rooted and romed my phone with instructions in this thread)
please help!
anything i can try?
anything i missed?

thanks in advance

sublimewulf · Feb 15, 2011

greysonbotts said:
ok... i may have screwed myself...
i can only boot into recovery
i have tried a stock nandroid recovery... no change
this started when i accidentally clicked "start update" (i think) in phone properties
it rebooted into recovery and said "updating"... tried to reboot and it went back into recovery
i'm kinda new to this but i can follow directions (obviously because i rooted and romed my phone with instructions in this thread)
please help!
anything i can try?
anything i missed?

thanks in advance

Do you have a skype or some kind of chat? I can walk you through possible ways of recovering.

greysonbotts · Feb 15, 2011

i already exchanged the phone at target but thanks for responding
i couldn't live without a phone...
i would be interested to hear your ideas actually just because i'm curious

jmel · Feb 15, 2011

This is a great thread, thanks for your work! I dropped my crappy sprint intrepid and came over to virgin mobile for this phone and the goodies. Looking forward to more good stuff.

Cheers!

jhr5474 · Feb 16, 2011

Ok

So I was rooted with your method and all the sudden the phone just shut off, went to recovery and wont do anything but recovery. I tried flashing your rom and it wont boot it goes directly to recovery again when I try to reboot. Is there a way to reflash the recovery via recovery or something? I am stuck in recovery!!!!!!!!!
I even tried a few other roms.

mattrb · Feb 17, 2011

Good Job Sir. Keep up the good work.

We need more Virgin Mobile/CM7

dingnecros · Feb 17, 2011

I flashed the CM7 rom it works sooo much smoother than the stock rom. Plus the added features are great. Most stuff works and OP already mentions that Wifi is not working. Some additional things that did not work out for me were

- Auto rotation of screen
- Screen brightness level controls
- Frequent crashes of the navigation app
- Inability for the navigation app to declare directions when Pandora was running
- For some reason I was prompted to slide open the physical keyboard a couple of times

The non working navigation features were the deal breaker for me but other than that the overall feel of the CM7 is soo much better than the stock rom. Everything feels more fluid even web acess seemed faster. Currently I flashed back my rooted nandroid backup of the stock rom

sublimewulf · Feb 18, 2011

dingnecros said:
I flashed the CM7 rom it works sooo much smoother than the stock rom. Plus the added features are great. Most stuff works and OP already mentions that Wifi is not working. Some additional things that did not work out for me were

The non working navigation features were the deal breaker for me but other than that the overall feel of the CM7 is soo much better than the stock rom. Everything feels more fluid even web acess seemed faster. Currently I flashed back my rooted nandroid backup of the stock rom

The navigation app can be fixed by pulling it and re-installing via market. I will be working on the bugs as soon as I get the opportunity though. I appreciate the input! It's nice to have feedback!

jessebwallace · Feb 18, 2011

jhr5474 said:
So I was rooted with your method and all the sudden the phone just shut off, went to recovery and wont do anything but recovery. I tried flashing your rom and it wont boot it goes directly to recovery again when I try to reboot. Is there a way to reflash the recovery via recovery or something? I am stuck in recovery!!!!!!!!!
I even tried a few other roms.

Did you ever get this fixed?
I'm curious if you did - I want to root tonight, but want to know how to fix problems that may arise.

drellisdee · Feb 18, 2011

As the creator of the recovery.img I must say I'm not very thrilled about this being posted in this manner with absolutely no credit being given to me. Posts like these are going to make me stop doing recoveries period. I made recovery.img's for the entire optimus lineup (Vortex, Opt S, Opt M, Opt P500, Opt P509, Opt V) and do not have any of these phones myself. My total amount of donations for all this work is > $50 and well over 25,000 downloads as many users don't know to whom to credit and thank or ones who wish to donate have no idea where to donate to.

Anyways here is the proper recovery designed for the Optimus V (released on 2/06/11) so you can stop using the Optimus S one. Please also replace download links with one below.

Optimus-V recovery.img

bigdog_nick · Feb 18, 2011

Thanks for the DIY, some parts i got stuck on but figured it out. Running Cyanogen now

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