How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the LG Viper 4G LTE
Are you looking for a custom recovery for your LG Viper 4G LTE to enjoy the beautiful custom ROMs floating around? Well, you’re in luck as a test CWM Recovery for your device is out now and it can easily be flashed on your device with a few commands. To simplify the process, we’ve put together all the steps to install CWM Recovery on your LG Viper 4G LTE in the following guide. Follow each step carefully and you should have a custom recovery on your device at the end.
I. Before You Begin:
1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Check out our guide on how to root the LG Viper 4G LTE.
2. This is a test build of the CWM Recovery for your device.
3. You should have drivers for your device installed on your PC.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. Recovery Package (Download link’s given in the first post)
2. Fastboot
III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG Viper 4G LTE:
1. Place both the archives on your Desktop.
2. Extract files from both the archives to your Desktop. You can use tools like WinRAR to do so.
3. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by going to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.
4. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.
5. When it asks for the connection type, select Charge only.
6. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop by pressing and holding the Shift button on your keyboard and right-clicking on any empty area on the screen, then choose Open command window here.
7. Type in following commands into the Command Prompt Window. Press ENTER after each line you type:
adb push cwmrecovery.img /data/local/tmp/cwmrecovery.img
mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /system
rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
rm /system/recovery-from-boot.p
busybox dd if=/data/local/tmp/cwmrecovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
rm /data/local/tmp/cwmrecovery.img
reboot recovery
8. It should flash the CWM Recovery on your device and will reboot you into the Recovery mode.
9. And you’re all set!
Excellent! You now have a working version of ClockworkMod Recovery on your device. Go ahead and download and flash a custom ROM on your device!
IV. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):
1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device, head to the How To Flash a Custom ROM on the LG Viper 4G LTE to learn how to do that.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.
If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
This is part of our Android How To’s. We have how to’s on rooting, loading ROMs, and tons of other tips and tricks for your specific device or for Android devices in general! For all of our Android How To’s, head here.
Question: Will flashing a CWM wipe all my data? If it does, how would I go about backing it all up so I can quickly and easily restore my phone to where it was before the CWM?
Flashing CWM doesn’t wipe the data on your device. It just replaces the stock recovery with CWM, that’s all.
Thanks Stephen!
Also, the adb isn’t being recognized as an internal or external command. Help?
Such error occurs when you do not have ADB.exe file in the directory where you’ve opened the Command Prompt Window, in this case, it’s your Desktop.
Make sure that you’ve ADB.exe file on your Desktop and you’re opening the Command Prompt Window just as I said in Step-6.
It should solve your problem!
The first command does not work cannot stat ‘cmwrecovery.img’ no such file or directory.
Hey Steve,
What’s the name of the recovery file you extracted from the archive? Is it cwmrecovery.img?
I didnt see any .img files in the archive.
I think the download provided is the wrong one.
Hey Steve,
Download link for the cwmrecovery.img is located in the first post of the source thread. Just click on “Recovery Package” link and you’ll be taken to the original thread from where you can download the recovery for your device.
Thanks!
Well when i download it I dont get the correct files…..I think they have been mis linked.