I finally had to do it.

[AndyOpie150]

3G only averaged around 90kb/s
When throttled they would now drop me below 20kb/s.

Eye's going south.

You get what you pay for.

I went to Metro PCS and purchased an LG Optimus L70 for just $50.00
Got the $40.00 plan which is 500MBs at 4G speed and anything over that at 3G speed. Unlimited talk and text.
Will go back today and get the additional $5.00 Hotspot function turned on.
Easy to figure out the phone. Just needed to set some paths to app folders to the external SD.

Will keep one V for testing and such. Will give other to someone deserving.

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[VDub2174]

Congrats on the upgrade!!

Enjoy your new phone

 

[AndyOpie150]

Will still help out fixing broke, bricked, and semi bricked V's as well as continue posting combo boot animations and improving the Bean_Whiz ROM.
I need to get another SD card. Will put new one in this LG Optimus L70, and put the old one back in good old V so I can check out the updates to the KitKat ROM for the V.

KitKat on this phone is very agreeable with me. Everything is smooth and responsive.

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[badblue1__]

Good luck with your new phone and provider Andy! Glad to hear you'll still be around to help members out, and yes, i love the bootanimations!

Still hope to see you in the forums.

 

[Lions2]

Good luck, and your BeanWhiz ROM was really stable on my ov.

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[AndyOpie150]

Thanks everyone.

Hey badblue1! Need a spare ZV4 V?

 

[badblue1__]

Thanks everyone.

Hey badblue1! Need a spare ZV4 V?

Well..... only had to think about that for about as long as it took me to read that ^^^again
That would be a yes,yes,yes and a big THANK YOU ANDY!!!!!

 

[AndyOpie150]

Okie Dokie. Will send you a PM with my address. Will send you the better/hardly used one. Capable of max CPU setting with no FC's or freezes.
It won't have an SD card, or screen protector. It will have the rubber/gel case.
Had to put the other SD card in a spiritual sisters tablet so I could get everything on it that was needed.

You just need to send me an envelope/shipping bag, inside an envelope, with the return address and postage prepaid for the wheight of the phone (you should be able to use yours to figure that out).

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[badblue1__]

I can see why you switched providers, 3g is slower than a herd of turtles right now!

Thanks again Andy, i really appreciate this !!! and will do as you say about shipping.

 

[AndyOpie150]

Day three with the LG Optimus L70 LGMS323.

There is only one thing about the phone I didn't like. Everything going to the internal (emulated) SD.
I fixed that by going into the setting of the stock browser (very capable stock browser), changed download folder location to: /storage/external_SD/Download.
Changed the location of App Manager lll's folder location to point to the external SD as well.
Everything working fine doing this and now I have way more room on the internal SD.

Other than that, I really, really, really like this super full featured stock ROM. No need to change anything really.
Might root and install a custom recovery to delete minor bloatware and make a backup of the ROM, but will have to wait till they can figure out how to work around the locked bootloader (they have already rooted it).

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[daffy_duck_nj]

Day three with the LG Optimus L70 LGMS323.

There is only one thing about the phone I didn't like. Everything going to the internal (emulated) SD.
I fixed that by going into the setting of the stock browser (very capable stock browser), changed download folder location to: /storage/external_SD/Download.
Changed the location of App Manager lll's folder location to point to the external SD as well.
Everything working fine doing this and now I have way more room on the internal SD.

Other than that, I really, really, really like this super full featured stock ROM. No need to change anything really.
Might root and install a custom recovery to delete minor bloatware and make a backup of the ROM, but will have to wait till they can figure out how to work around the locked bootloader (they have already rooted it).

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The locked bootloader is something people on the LG Optimus F3's have dealt with. A developer named Dan Rosenberg (djrbliss) created an exploit that was originally developed for the Samsung Galaxy S4. Here's his post about it on XDA:
[LOKI] Bootloader hack official FAQ thread - xda-developers

The F3's from VM, T-Mobile, and MetroPCS have benefited from this exploit, allowing us F3 owners to use a couple of custom recoveries (CWM based), and a few ROMs that are modified from LG's source code for the F3. Hopefully the same can be done for the L70. The F3 is still on JB 4.1.2; it should have KitKat by September (dependent on VM's decision of course).

 

[AndyOpie150]

Thanks.
Will look for more of your informative posts in the LG Optimus L forum.
Will be posting all other info on this phone there as well.

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[daffy_duck_nj]

Thanks.
Will look for more of your informative posts in the LG Optimus L forum.
Will be posting all other info on this phone there as well.

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Andy, I have the F3, not the L70. I'm still on VM.

 

[AndyOpie150]

I know. I've seen some of your helpful posts in the LG L70 forum that where on topic.

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[bjzapp]

Congrats, good luck with the new device, and thanks for all you do!

This may sound like a farewell, but it's just a BIG thank you!

 

[Mat Guerra]

PLEASE HELP! my metro PCS LG L70 phone is bricked i believe its stuck on AAT-Mini OS 3.0 dont even know what that is please help! even metro tried to factory reset it and couldnt!!!

 

[AndyOpie150]

Post in the LG Optimus L forums.

I help you there.

Windows Operating System on your computer, as well as the KDZ firmware updater, the firmware, LG updater app, and ability to get the phone into emergency/ download mode.

Make sure you put the firmware and the KDZ updater on the C:/ drive.

I will walk you thru all steps once you post there.

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[op t must]

3G only averaged around 90kb/s
When throttled they would now drop me below 20kb/s.

Eye's going south.

You get what you pay for.

I went to Metro PCS and purchased an LG Optimus L70 for just $50.00
Got the $40.00 plan which is 500MBs at 4G speed and anything over that at 3G speed. Unlimited talk and text.
Will go back today and get the additional $5.00 Hotspot function turned on.
Easy to figure out the phone. Just needed to set some paths to app folders to the external SD.

Will keep one V for testing and such. Will give other to someone deserving.

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Good for you, AO! You deserve it.

Leaning toward that Metro plan myself. VM 3g feels more and more like dialup. For a few $ more/ month for 4G, plus coverage map indicates I'll get better data and voice reception at home. Seems like an easy decision.

 

[AndyOpie150]

Best decision I've made. Now phone can be rooted and have custom recovery. Love all the goodies and multitasking ability.

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