[LG Optimus 4X HD] chrisus:
Hello everybody,

so I'm as new to this forum as I am to the android world. Just this Wednesday i bought a new LG Optimus 4X HD on amazon.de

Thought it would be nice to start of with Cyanogenmod.

So I started my search for some good "How-To's"...it were many I went through and I already invested many hours in getting this running. Sadly it still doesn't work. I actually wanted to stay with one How-To but at one point there's always a download not working so that other sources are needed.

So what did I do...

-I rooted it yes (at this point I needed to download "Rooting Toolkit for Optimus 4X HD" which wasn't downloadable so i switched to another How-To, btw. first How-To: http://androidlegend.com/android-4-2-1-via-cyanogenmod-10-1-for-lg-optimus-4x-hd-p880-cm10-1/

-Installed "LG 4X Recovery 1.2" and installed this way CWM.

-At another point here I installed ROM Manager, installed it and went into Recovery and here happend the first problem, kernel panic.

Said something like "couldn't load kernel/wrong kernel", kernel panics...Me panics too :p

Anyway, force kill -> auto reboot -> still kernel panic -> again -> batterie out and a few times with usb cable connected to PC -> Batterie again, works :good:

Ok so Clockworkmods Rom Manager seemed to be not that good... did recovery boot with LG 4X Recovery, tada works, I go into the folder with the Cyanogenmod-zip and want to start the ROM installation and it says Status 7 (of course I googled Status 7 and searched here in the xda-boards for it, nothing helpful found yet)

Installed older version of LG 4X Recovery (1.1), still same fault.

I uninstall the ROM manager, redownload and reinstall, try to backup -> Kernel panic.

I search for a different How-To, yet nothing good happened. Others go something similar and say "at booting press On-Button and Volume down-button at the same time", I do that -> Kernel panic

I have no idea whats wrong with the kernel...but normal booting works fine.

Next I read something about needing to unlock bootloader, have a workthrough aka this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2224020

After I enter "adb reboot oem-unlock" in DOS command window it should say something concerning "open bootloader", but not in my case, just a normal reboot happened (this is what it looks like at least). Checking the hidden menu also doesn't show anything as I don't have the option with the boot-loader status there.

Next trick, I go to LG Recovery again and first wipe the whole stuff and try then the Cyanogen istall, still doesn't work and as I wasn't able to backups before (tried Titanium but it froze at 12% and the stuff about ROM Manager is told^^) I now had a clean factory install, all my work before lost, nothing rooted and still a kernel which panics when I do the "safe-boot"(this volume- and on-button-thing).

I also tried 3-All-in-one solutions, neither of them worked. (2 german ones, and one english one)

So I think thats it, ah wrong, still not finished. I also tried to install a new kernel to erase that f****ng problem with the kernel panic. I choose to use WerwewolfJB_v005 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2256899

the easy and fast way made the same as the try before with the "open bootloader"-try, just normal restart. When I enter the second line in the command line, it just says "waiting for device".

So yeah, thats it. I don't know what else to do. Does anyone know what I could also do, or is this case unsolvable? Is the Smartphone broken or did I make a mistake at any point? What should I do?

I'd be super glad if anyone could help me here. I hope I described my case well enough. I hope I didn't forget anything. :(

Thanks in advance!

Greetz chrisus