[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Hey there team. I've been a long time lurker here and might not have made many posts. Getting this phone and given my time flashing, rooting, and following guides here, I really want to start getting in on the conversations and discussions. Let me go through with what happened to my last LG Volt...

I had successfully rooted the device using towelroot and been playing around with the usual root access apps. I had superuser, busybox, etc. What I came across as a problem with the device was it's RAM usage on a lot of apps and the problem was largely just OS (after purging a lot of apps off the device). The biggest problem I was having was with Skype crashing and ending calls anytime you switched out of the Skype app itself.

Being the idiot I am, I began looking into possibly using SWAP memory to try to extend my RAM a little to see if I could correct what Skype was doing (assuming it was a RAM issue, which, now thinking about it, I don't think it was because my EVO V worked fine [On custom roms granted]). So I tried doing some swap stuff and it overall just would not go. I figured it was a KitKat issue involving the SD Card and how the file structure on the LG Volt seemed to handle SD related stuff, all going to emulated memory. So. I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and research anymore, and considering not too much work had been done on the Volt yet, I decided to give up that campaign and wait for more research to get done.

In the mean time, I told the phone to do a factory reset so I can start back fresh and go about using the device normally. This might have been where I made a mistake. I told the device to factory reset and format everything through the Android OS instead of booting into the stock recovery and telling it to do a factory reset. The phone shut off and never came back. I was not able to get it to charge, I could not enter LG Download Mode, I couldn't get into the recovery, absolutely nothing. Tried seeing if I could use the LG Mobile support tool to push anything to the phone since my computer could still see the phone connected... No luck.

So, my questions to the team here on XDA is:

1. What exactly happened to cause the phone to start the factory reset, but, lose everything? I could only assume that the phone kicked the system, data, boot, recovery, and... well.. everything off and fried it's memory. I assume it had to do with what I was trying to do with swap memory and something getting seriously messed up.

2. More specific on what the phone did after, it would not turn on, charge, go to recovery, or download mode. It was completely unresponsive. Would there have been a way to resurrect this phone back from the dead that I wasn't able to find after all the looking and research I had done?

3. With the new LG Volt I recieved from Virgin, how safe would you say things would be to go about rooting again and being more careful with my apps while I wait or get involved with some of the future ROM development for the device?

4. Is there something with how LGs recovery and download partitions are set up that would cause these to be unable to function? Or something that is particular to the LG Volt?

Finally, 5. I noticed that the work done and the team researching the Volt right now have managed to get an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery that works. Would it be safe with the research done now to go about unlocking and flashing the custom recovery on?

These questions all take into account common knowledge stuff such as, the potentially to brick a phone again is always there and to continue doing as much research and reading as I can to know what I'm doing with the device accurately. Hope my questions can be answered here, until then, cheers gentlemen.