Unable to boot LG Optimus G into recovery - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I'm having trouble booting my LG Optimus G into recovery mode. I've rooted the phone and installed ClockworkMod recovery. When I try to boot into recovery, either from the ROMmanager app or by holding Volume Up and Power, it comes up with the LG logo and gives this error: Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify. It just stays like that until I press and hold the power button again until the phone shuts off entirely. Then I'm able to boot into the stock operating system and the phone works fine, but I can never get it to boot into recovery.
The error I mentioned above seems to be a well documented error on the internet, but it seems like other people that are having the trouble are completely bricking their phones. Mine is able to come out of it. All the solutions I'm finding pertain to a phone that's completely bricked and involve taking the phone back to stock. My phone works fine with the stock ROM, but I'd like to play with some custom ROM's.
Any ideas? Thanks!

I am having this same issue, anybody resolve?

Sounds like you don't have the right recovery. If you're already rooted, I believe FreeGee is the go to app for setting up recovery and all that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.shell.freegee_free
Rom Manager sucks for most phones and has for years.

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On a scale of 1 - bricked, how bricked is my phone?
HUGE DEVELOPMENTS, GUYS! I've been able to access recovery mode again by re-flashing ClockWorkMod.
ctran1 said:
On a scale of 1 - bricked, how bricked is my phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
On that scale, you are zero. If the screen comes on, you aren't bricked.

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this phone is NOWHERE... i cant believe how few people have this phone in the hacking community.
I've used a guide seen here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiq21WsFEc
essentially I rooted it in KK successfully. Then I installed TWRP through the twrp app... installed successfully. no error.
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Possible solution
That video seemed to be for the newer model of the zte grand x, thats why its called grand x plus. I had tried it on my phone and it was like stuck in a power up loop, what i did to get out of it is to go into recovery mode by pressing and hold the power button plus the up volume button. One i got in there i just rebooted it. Try that out and see if it works. Im still looking around for a solid root for this phone

How I booted into TWRP from power-off

I've seen lots of comments about not being able to boot into TWRP to flash something after rooting and phone is all setup. Quickboot and Tasker can do this but I wanted to do it with on/off/volume buttons (like my old Samsung, (I'm spoiled)).
I locked up my phone fooling around with the build.prop. I could not get beyond the LG logo. I decided I had to start over with factory restore. (Hold Volume down/on/off at same time, when logo appears release on/off for 1 second, still holding volume down, and press on/off and hold until it boots into Factory Restore mode.)
I went through the prompts to factory restore and on the last "Yes" the phone booted into TWRP instead of into a Factory Restore. After restoring from my nandroid backup I tried it again and it worked again. So, I've concluded if you have TWRP installed this is the method I used to boot into it from power off.
Tested and confirmed on my v10 as well.
That's how I used to do it on my G3 when I couldn't boot properly.
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Woohoo! Thanks. Worked.
OMFG! it wasn't until I was about to make a post about this to ask for help that this post came up and I am ever so grateful! Like others who have had trouble getting there with the hardware buttons, I tried so many ways and searched far and near with no workable solution until this!
How'd you install recovery ? I'm having h960a model and i can't seem to be able to root or install recovery.. i've tried every method out there .
As far as I know, only T-Mobile USA version has root and custom recovery so far.
Sent from my pretty nifty brand new LG V10

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