[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwgast:
Ok first of all Im sticking this question in general android Q&A because there in no XDA Forum for this phone. It is a Straight Talk LG Optimus Q 55c, this is my girlfriends phone its basically an optimus p500/v with a sliding keyboard Overclocked too 800mhz. I own a virgin optimus V so I have a lot of experience with this platform but Im stumped maybe im just neglecting to see something, Im hoping "another set of eyes" will help turn on a light and get my girlfriends phone working again as she cant afford another :/!

So here is what Im dealing with. I had rooted the phone for her and installed clockwork mod recovery & fastboot. Since she got the thing its had problems freezing (probably because it stock overclocked), and occasionally pulls a random reset. She asked me If I could install another ROM on it to see if it may help make the phone more stable. I went a searching and found that the Optimus Q community is very small almost nothing and her only real choice was a port of the Area51 Rom. So Installed the rom.... A few days later she had told me her phone was mega slow now and acting up way more, so I told her I would flash back to stock.

I rebooted the phone and found to my surprise CWM and fastboot seemed to be gone... what the h*ll? Im assuming when I flashed AreaRom it installed the stock Recovery and removed fastboot, I cant figure out any reason why the stock recovery would be back on the phone. Anyways I didnt feel like flashing a new recovery at the time. Well 3 days go by and her phone crashes and gets stuck in a boot loop. So she went in to recovery and wiped it. The phone then went through the process of collecting e-mail and password, asking about backing up, then asking whether or not to turn the location services on. Once you hit next Android throws an exception and says setupwizard.apk failed to initialize or something along those line. So after that the launcher does not load only the task bar at the top. When rebooted the phone enters a boot loop againg until wiped.

So heres the deal I can use adb, but when I try to get into an adb shell the prompt says error: closed. I have been able to use adb to push and pull files that is all. I tried to push setupwizard.apk to the system/apps directory but of coures it needs to be remounted to read write and I dont have any shell access to do that. So basically adb sees the phone but the shell doesnt work, when i type adb root it reports adbd is running as root on the phone, so I guess the shell service just never loads.... I do have stock recovery but the problem with that is there is no update.zip files it will except I have tried a myraid of methods to sign an update.zip but every time I try to run the update the stock recovery says verification failed. Of course LG has no official updates for this phone using there signature that I can use.

So basically my phone works recovery works android starts but cant finish setting up and never starts the adb shell service. If anyone knows how I can push setupwizard to /system/app, get adbd to initialize, or sign a 3rd party rom and have the stock recovery use it I would be very gratefull! Maybe there is a way to get fastboot back on there or enabled or something? adb reboot-fastboot just reboots like normal. I am at the point where I going to take the phone apart to find a serial uart connection and pray I can get a shell that way!!

Ive looked into a few programs like kdz update and lgmdp but they dont seem to work with this phone and I cant get into any emergency mode, maybe Im doing it wrong this is the first ive heard of emergeny mode.