How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the LG Shine Plus

Just rooting your LG Shine Plus won’t let you install custom ROMs, you’re gonna need a custom recovery to do that. In this guide, we’ll show you how you can install the ClockworkMod Recovery on your LG Shine Plus, to get those shiny custom ROMs up and running on your device. The recovery’s also useful in some other terms, such as it’ll let you make a backup of your current ROM, so you can restore it whenever you want. Let’s see how you can flash the recovery on your device:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Check out our root guide to root your device.

2. This procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (Download link’s given in the first post)

2. Flash Image (Download link’s available in the first post)

3. Fastboot

III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG Shine Plus:

1. Place all the three files you’ve downloaded to your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the Fastboot archive over to your Desktop.

3. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

4. Copy the Recovery Image as well as Flash Image files over to the root of your SD card.

5. Once the files have been copied, disconnect your device from your PC.

6. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by going to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.

7. Once it’s been enabled, connect your device to your PC via USB cable.

8. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, press and hold the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any blank area on the screen, then choose Open command window here.

9. Type in following commands into the Command Prompt. Hit ENTER after each line you type:

adb shell
su
cp /sdcard/flash_image /data/local/flash_image
chmod 0755 /data/local/flash_image
/data/local/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-cwm-shineplus-5.5.0.4.img
sync
exit
exit
adb reboot recovery

10. You should reboot into the CWM Recovery mode.

11. You’re all set!

Excellent! Your Shine Plus has been successfully equipped with CWM Recovery. Use it to get your favorite custom ROMs for 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 Shine Plus 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.

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