[Q] No Recovery Mode topic

Hi Folks,

My apologies if this has been covered before. I was unable to use the forum search and after 3 hours of reading and tinkering, I haven't gotten very far.

I have a fair bit of flashing experience with multiple devices and was under the impression that the Tmo G2 is very easy to flash.

I have a new Tmo D801. The version on the phone when received was 4.4.2. After much scouring of XDA, I found I needed to go back to 4.2.2 to root, flash TWRP and put a new custom ROM down. After more scouring, I managed to use the TOT method of downgrading the Android software to 4.2.2 and that was successful. I used IORoot to root the device, but per many instructions, I never saw the recovery menu. I have tried multiple ways to boot in to recovery. When doing a command line "adb reboot recovery", the little android with the blue wire frame shows up briefly and then the phone goes to the LG icon, then in to the stock 4.2.2 firmware.

What am I doing wrong? I've read through a number of threads including the following:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2701799
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2432476

I haven't taken the OTA that keeps coming up on the phone.

Any help is greatly appreciated.