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Introduction

The master plan is to leave it up to intrepid third-party developers to compile, tweak, and distribute their own variants on the IHO source. There will be no official Inferior Human Organs binary releases. For the C and U there are currently no active ports. If anyone is interested in a port for one of those phones and has a stock, non-rooted copy they would like to donate, a port could probably be hammered out in short order.

Disclaimer

Installing customized versions of Android will void your warranty and make your phone incompatible with official updates released by your carrier.

You may encounter serious software problems that make your phone unusable. If you need help, ask the users in the official discussion thread. If they can’t get your phone working again, don’t return it. Making manufacturers eat the cost of your decision encourages restrictive policies that hurt us all.

Android’s greatest strength is its flexibility. Let’s be good stewards of the freedom given to us so that it isn’t taken away.

Distributions

For the Optimus S (LS670, Sprint):

Author ROM Latest version MD5 checksum Changelog
ath3nos ath3nos July 15, 2011
drewwalton19216801 drewwalton19216801 (stable) August 2, 2011 0743014a0a9e9f0b5576528fb795ddf5
drewwalton19216801 drewwalton19216801 (experimental) August 8, 2011 d8848ce0e80ee114bbd648e734673e13
thekraven 3-7-2012c-cm7.2-IHO-KRAVEN March 7, 2012 1a05141d064d18216a75cf1fc5b44df7
Changelog

For the Optimus C (LW690, Cricket Wireless):

Author ROM Latest version MD5 checksum Changelog
BobZhome CM7.2.0 RC0-BobZ January 17, 2012 5d093b7a1d580b11e7fa8b9e5bafc95c Changelog

For the Optimus M (MS690, MetroPCS Wireless):

Author ROM Latest version MD5 checksum Changelog
BobZhome CM7.2.0 RC1-BobZ March 24, 2012 824fca17bcb5eb8e7bc7eab4ef61718d Changelog

For the Optimus Vortex (VS660, Verizon Wireless):

Author ROM Latest version MD5 checksum Changelog
BobZhome CM7.2.0 RC0-BobZ January 19, 2012 8310a115ef17bcc08ee775833c72a2c9 Changelog

For the Optimus V (VM670, Virgin Mobile USA):

Author ROM Latest version MD5 checksum Changelog
JerryScript BACKside-IHO-VM670 May 2, 2012 066c2f984c612821e9b3584e1efbdba2 Changelog
BobZhome CM7.2.0 RC1-BobZ May 20, 2012 3c312440ad2ab72e0a8af66cd1cd07e2 Changelog
BobZhome CM9.0.0-BobZ August 16, 2012 5b0f18ad20100ea4b4618ed409dfac93 Changelog
BobZhome CM10.0.0-RC0-BobZ August 18, 2012 18a8c4b7e74be356f2c0e1885e2c0f5e Changelog
mrg666 CM7.2-IHO-MiRaGe July 16, 2012 ff9c337911eddb61679be91df76b26b6 Changelog
Leslie Ann Harmonia v.2.08 19 May 2012 8c2bc492618c78db4488536768ae634a Changelog
ThaUnknownArtist ICSandwich2.3.7 Final January 9, 2012 0a5fd32573d27ad6a1216433b937de34 Changelog
tvall almost-purity April 9, 2012 a85e49ac74ea4d8e7643f22351d826ee Changelog
tvall iho magpie June 4, 2012 158d5fbd4fa2d31257d54d3620e9d026 Changelog
Earthnfire78 OM-Mandylion August 16, 2012 9bc370c27dadba0eb45d2ee96ac386de Changedlog

Optimus V ROM Differences:

Author ROM Added Removed Replaced
JerryScript BACKside BacksideUpdater with Auto ROM Install + Backup/Restore, Option to disable ICS rotation animations, Bootsound with option to disable, Pedlar’s bootanimation chooser and additional bootanimations, Update checker V1.1 with package checking, Custom first bootanimation thanks to tdmcode(init) & LeslieAnn(RLE).
Built in theme options: center clock in status bar, change status bar clock color, change status bar background appearance, carrier text changer, notification dropdown apppearance, show/hide system icons in status bar, restart status bar from settings, change overscroll color. ADB over network option. BobZhome’s camera fixes, and camcorder icon.
FM radio, large ringtones, all theme and livewallpaper APKs, all but US-English and Spanish TTS LatinIME replaced with smaller version, removed cm fingerprint frameworks, bootanimation, bootlogo, and BobZhome camera and kernel v3.7, thanks Bob!
BobZhome CM7.2RC0-BobZ Camera Tweaks: 1)Fixed: Touch to focus 2)support image/video stabilization 3)Increased picture output size extra themes, live wallpaper, FM radio, bootloader in recovery, and all languages except English LauncherPro replaces ADW Launcher, and system font now Roboto
mrg666 MiRaGe A barebones/basic ROM closely following CyanogenMod. Additions: 1) Optional stock Android 2.3.5 Launcher (see #4 in optional files) 2) Cyanbread_light: a tiny theme to replace the orange highlights with cyan/blue that matches with the recent Google Play apps (included in the ROM) (source code is here ) Extra themes, CMwallpaper, FM radio, large ring tones, CM services, development app, and all languages except English(US) and Spanish custom-built kernel w/ gcc-4.7, ICS fonts for system and lockscreen clock, ICS style battery, signal, wifi, sdcard, data icons for statusbar, transparent notification background, Android boot logo
Leslie Ann Harmonia_2 Basic Gapps, stock GB Launcher, minor battery tweaks. Basically a stock GB factory rom based on MiRaGe. Everything possible without effecting anything, English Spanish only A very basic but complete GB rom.
ThaUnknownArtist ICSandwich2.3.7 Final Tweaks, ICS Ringtones/Wallpapers/Sounds Bloatware Kernel, Launcher, Music App, Theme, Certain System Files
tvall almost-purity Fm.apk BobZhome v3.7 kernel
tvall iho magpie magpie apps2sd-ext (a kang of the cm5 a2sd feature, ported to cm6 and 7 by @Firer4t), backside updater :) Fm.apk my tweaked kernel, launcher2 instead of adw
Earthnfire78 OM-Manadylion Modified ad3sdx script, BacksideUpdater with added CWM-Blue-Recovery support, Basic Gapps Everything that is not needed, plus Theme Chooser and Manager apk’s Launcher2 Kernel, org.zeam, Custom Ringtones

Installation Prerequisites

Using a custom recovery such as ClockworkMod or ClockworkMod-based is highy recommend, and there are a few to chose from. Those with newer (purchased in or after August 2011) or refurbished phones should use CWM-Green-Recovery-05022012, CWM-Blue-Recovery-20120629, Cannibal Open Touch v1.2, or VM670NH_recovery to avoid black screen problems.
The Cannibal Open Touch v1.2 and Xionia CWMA 1.2518.6 both feature a fix-recovery-bootloop, but the Xionia recoveries sometimes create problems so it is only recommended if you will be flashing a build with Xionia kernel built in. The CWM-Green-Recovery-05022012 and CWM-Blue-Recovery-20120629 both work with BacksideUpdater, with CWM-Blue-Recovery the sd-ext is added to the functionality of Full-Wipe and Update Install. The semi-official IHO Recovery for the VM670 is currently at version 4.0.1.4.3. The aospCMod 3.0.2.8 and stock CWM 3.2.0.1
recoveries appear to work properly for most people who’s phones were purchased before August 2011.

Installation Instructions

If you don’t know what the terms used below mean, see The Total Newbie's Dictionary.

  1. Back up important apps & data using something like Titanium Backup
  2. Boot into recovery mode (from power-off, hold vol-down, home, & power until LG logo)
  3. Consider performing a Nandroid backup
  4. Wipe Cache & Dalvik-cache
  5. Format system, data, and cache (Only if coming from another ROM or 1st time installing)
  6. Flash your chosen ROM
  7. Flash Google apps (from the OFFICIAL CM WIKI or UNOFFICIAL updated/additional ones HERE) (Only if coming from another ROM or 1st time installing)
  8. Reboot

Optional Files:

  1. Debugsystem.zip which will properly wipe any leftover files missed by the recovery (which ours have trouble with) so flash this every time you want to do a clean wipe. After you wipe everything first…. (HERE)
  2. Optimus Prime Boot Animation (HERE)
  3. LatinIME v2.3.5 with other languages (11MB) [taken from BobZ 08-10-2011] (HERE)
  4. ThemeManager and ThemeChooser flash this zip after fashing rom zip in recovery (HERE)
  5. Stock Android 2.3.5 Launcher to replace ADWLauncher. Compiled by mrg666 from CM repo. Flash this zip file in the recovery right after flashing the IHO ROM with ADWLauncher (will not work with modified ROMs with other launchers) (HERE)
  6. Flash this zip file to replace the default system font with the Roboto font in ICS (HERE)
  7. Activate Bootsounds. Flash this zip file in recovery to activate bootsound. File is /system/media/android_audio.mp3 (HERE)
  8. AS2DGUI – Darktremor A2SD GUI (HERE)
  9. V6 SuperCharger Update 9 – (HERE); try using 6,13, and 19 numbers for optimum speed.
  10. ADW Launcher to replace Launcher2. Pulled from MiRaGe. Flash after rom to get cm’s adw launcher (for roms that use launcher2 by default) (HERE)
  11. GPS fix: Use either FasterGPS or mrg666 flash-able zip

If you choose to restore your backups, don’t restore system apps or settings since doing so may cause unwanted problems.

When upgrading from a different ROM, or if you encounter bizarre problems, replace “Wipe Dalvik cache” with “Wipe system, data, and cache partitions”. This will leave your SD card intact but otherwise obliterate your other settings and saved data.

Bloat Removal

See Barebones Cyanogenmod 7 on how to remove some of the bloatware that comes with the default CM7 distribution.

Or check the apk list compiled by Leslie Ann for a more complete list

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