Dirty hack stock update to zvk [GUIDE]

[brandonabandon]

HELLO VIPER USERS

I DISCOVERED HOW TO MODIFY THE UPDATE.ZIP TO ALLOW DELETING OF THE UNWANTED APPS SNACKING THE DATA, SPACE, AND BATTERY OF OUR DEVICE. THIS GUIDE WILL HOPEFULLY TEACH YOU HOW TO D. IT Y.LOL I WILL ALSO BE HOSTING MY PERSONAL .ZIP FOR USERS, WITH A WARNING.

LETS BEGIN.

THINGS REQUIRED
1)UBUNTU https://www.ubuntu.com

2)GIT-CORE AND GITHUB ACCOUNT @GITHUB.COM

2) ZVK INCREMENTAL UPDATE.ZIP https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s...AFtwgaJxMmlPqifhlzSXFagSs_VVG7ZySdUmnUi6y6JEw

3)THE BOOT.IMG FROM THIS LINK http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-viper-4g-lte/234978-ics-boot-image-no-lg-security-error.html (CLICK I ACCEPT TO DOWNLOAD)

4)LOKI TOOL https://github.com/djrbliss/loki

5)LG VIPER ABOOT.IMG https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gxz7q0kci7r04s/LS840.rar
THANKS KANISHK619 FOR PROVIDING/HOSTING!

6)RUNNING ANDROID VERSION ZVI (NOT ZVK, WILL NOT WORK!) IF YER UNSURE HOW TO DOWNGRADE TO ZVI (WINDOWS NECESSARY) http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...-viper-using-android-4-0-4-tot-dll-print.html

7)JOSH'S RECOVERY recovery.zip | recovery.zip | by Jaegerjaquez for Generic Device
THANKS FOR YER EFFORTS AND HOSTING!

8)YER DEVICE NEEDS TO BE ROOTED! http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-viper-4g-lte/221448-ics-universal-root-xda.html

9)ADB INSTALLED EITHER ANDROID TERMINAL EMULATOR APP OR UBUNTU PC Install ADB And Fastboot Android Tools In Ubuntu Via PPA ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

edit: step one optional
STEP 1)LOKI YER KERNEL

DOWNLOAD OR WGET THE LOKI SOURCE

sudo apt-get install git-core

MKDIR ~/LOKI

CD ~/LOKI

git clone https://github.com/djrbliss/loki.git

MAKE

INSERT THE BOOT.IMG @ THE LOKI DIRECTORY

CP /PATH/TO/BOOT.IMG /PATH/TO/LOKI

INSERT THE ABOOT.IMG @ THE LOKI DIRECTORY

CP /PATH/TO/ABOOT.IMG /PATH/TO/LOKI

NOW LOKI THE KERNEL ALREADY....

CD ~/LOKI

./LOKI_TOOL PATCH BOOT ABOOT.IMG BOOT.IMG BOOT.LOK

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? LOL BY DOING THIS WE HAVE LOKI'D THE KERNEL WHICH AFTER BEING FLASHED VIA THE UPDATE.ZIP SHALL BYPASS THE BOOTLOADER AND RESULT WITH OUR NEW KERNEL (W/O SECURITY ERROR) ALLOWING US TO MODIFY OUR SYSTEM.

STEP 2) MODIFY THE UPDATE.ZIP

DOWNLOAD THE ZVK INCREMENTAL PACKAGE FROM THE LINK ABOVE

EXTRACT

DELETE THE BOOT.IMG

COPY THE BOOT.LOK FROM THE LOKI DIRECTORY TO REPLACE THE DELETED BOOT.IMG FROM THE UPDATE DIRECTORY AND RENAME BOOT.LOK TO BOOT.IMG

NAVIGATE UPDATE/PATCH/SYSTEM/APPS

DELETE WHAT YOU DONT WANT FYI KEEPING LGDOWNLOADPROVIDER.ODEX LGDOWNLOADPROVIDERUI.ODEX GOOGLELOGINSERVICE.APK GOOGLELOGINSERVICE.ODEX GOOGLESERVICESFRAMEWORK.APK AND GOOGLESERVICESFRAMEWORK.ODEX I BELIEVE ARE REQUIRED FOR PLAYSTORE TO FUNCTION. IF YOU DONT NEED PLAYSTORE YOU CAN DELETE THESE APPS THOUGH. KEEP TRACK OR CREATE A FILE OF THE DELETED APPS WE WILL NEED TO MODIFY SOURCES ACCORDINGLY.

NAVIGATE UPDATE/META-INF

OPEN THE MANIFEST.MF FILE SEARCH FOR EACH APP YOU DELETED AND DELETE EACH APPS NAME AND SHA1 DIGEST
EXAMPLE IF YOU DELETED THE SPRINT LAUNCHER SEARCH FOR SPRINTLAUNCHER WITHIN THE MANIFEST.MF FILE,

Name: patch/system/app/SprintLauncher.odex.p
SHA1-Digest: DslAo9WA25TaJi+wkg/okqapEAQ=

DELETE IT!^ LOL

NOW SEARCH FOR BOOT.IMG WITHIN THE MANIFEST.MF, FOUND IT? NOW OPEN A TERMINAL

SHA1SUM PATH/TO/BOOT.IMG

SHOULD ACTUALLY BE

SHA1SUM UPDATE/BOOT.IMG

IF YER UPDATE ZIP IS IN A DIRECTORY NAMED UPDATE, ANYHOW. COPY THE CODE FROM THE TERMINAL, ERASE SHA 1 DIGEST CODE, AND REPLACE IT WITH THE TERMINAL CODE. AFTER YOU DELETE ALL THE APPS YOU REMOVED FROM THE MANIFEST, SAVE IT AND CLOSE

NAVIGATE /UPDATE/META-INF

OPEN THE CERT.SF FILE

FOLLOW THE SAME EXACT INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE THE MANIFEST.MF TO A T. INCLUDING COPYING THE BOOT.IMG SHA1 CODE AND REPLACEING ITS NEW CODE DONT FORGET TO SAVE THE CHANGES

NOW NAVIGATE /UPDATE

SELECT ALL 3 FILES EXCLUDING THE EXTRACTED .ZIP (IF YOU EXTRACTED WITHIN THE DIRECTORY) SHOULD BE SYSTEM, PATCH, META-INF, AND RADIO.IMG AND COMPRESS. NAME IT WHATEVER YOU WANT AND COPY IT TO YER SDCARD EITHER CONNECT YER DEVICE AND DRAG IT TO YER MTP OR CONNECT AND OPEN A TERMINAL

ADB PUSH /PATH/TO/.ZIP /SDCARD/.ZIP

GOOD. NOW WE NEED JOSH'S RECOVERY TO FLASH IT!

DOWNLOAD THE RECOVERY.LOK AND COPY IT TO YER HOME DIRECTORY AND OPEN A TERMINAL

ADB PUSH /PATH/TO/RECOVERY.LOK DATA/LOCAL/TMP/RECOVERY.LOK

ADB SHELL

IF USEING ANDROID TERMINAL EMULATOR ADB SHELL UNNECESSARY

SU

MOUNT -O REMOUNT, RW /SYSTEM

DD IF=/DATA/LOCAL/TMP/RECOVERY.LOK OF=/DEV/BLOCK/MMCBLK0P13

BE PATIENT, SOMETIMES TAKES A MINUTE, NOT HANGING

YOU SHOULD SEE THIS IN TERMINAL
15072+0 records in
15072+0 records out
7716864 bytes transferred in 2.954 secs (2612343 bytes/sec)

OR SOMETHING CLOSE TO IT, THE EXAMPLE IS NOT FROM THE ACTUAL FLASHING OF A RECOVERY, ANYHOW. WHAT JUST HAPPENED? YOU FLASHED THE RECOVERY.LOK WHICH IN NAME IS TWRP (TEAM WIN RECOVERY PROJECT) A CUSTOM RECOVERY WHICH WILL ALLOW YOU TO FLASH CUSTOM ROMS, MAKE BACKUPS, AND OTHER SNAZZY PERKS. OK?

NOW REBOOT TO RECOVERY, EITHER POWER OFF DEVICE AND RESTART WHILST HOLDING THE VOLUME DOWN BUTTON, DO A FACTORY RESET BY PRESSING THE POWER BUTTON TWICE, YOU WILL REBOOT TO RECOVERY, THIS DOESNT ACTUALLY PERFORM THE FACTORY RESET BUT ALLOWS YOU TO DO SO WITHIN THE NEW RECOVERY, WHICH YOU CAN DO IF YOU LIKE, BUT NOT NECESSARY NOW. OR OPEN A TERMINAL

ADB REBOOT RECOVERY

MAKE A BACKUP

CLICK BACKUP

SWIPE

CLICK INSTALL BUTTON

NAVIGATE TO WHATEVER YOU NAMED YER .ZIP

DO YOU WANT TO FLASH .ZIP? SWIPE WAIT

IF SUCCESSFUL, REBOOT TO ZVK

STEP 3) REROOT

IF YOU WERE ROOTED WITH OTA ROOTKEEPER IT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SAVED YER ROOT, BUT THAT DOESNT MATTER BECAUSE I DISCOVERED A REROOTING METHOD. DELETE THE SU BACKUP (OTA ROOTKEEPER) NOW DELETE THE APP. NAVIGATE (ON YER DEVICE) APP SETTINGS/SUPERUSER DISABLE SUPERUSER AND CLEAR DATA. NOW REBOOT TO RECOVERY, EITHER BY APP, FACTORY RESET STYLE OR OPEN A TERMINAL

ADB REBOOT RECOVERY

CLICK REBOOT, IF TWRP DOESNT PROMPT TO INSTALL SUPERSU THEN CLICK RECOVERY, IT SHOULD, IF IT DOESNT RESTART YER PHONE AND TRY AGAIN BUT MAKE SURE YOU CLEARED THE DATA FROM SUPERUSER AND DISABLED IT. AT THE TWRP PROMT, SWIPE TO INSTALL THE SUPERSU INSTALLER, YOU SHOULD REBOOT AUTOMATICALLLY, AFTER YER REBOOT, NAVIGATE TO APPS, CLICK SUPERSU INSTALLER, CLICK TWRP YOU WILL REBOOT, INSTALL SU AUTOMATICALLY AND REBOOT AGAIN.

DONE

THANKS TO: LOKI,Jaegerjaquez69,thenameisnigel, AND ANYONES LINKS I USED FOR HELPING MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.

NOW MY UPDATE: *WARNING* I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YER ACTIONS. THIS IS MY UPDATE.ZIP AND MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DATA ENABLED AND DOESNT HAVE THE STOCK PHONE. FEEL FREE TO CHECK IT--> https://app.box.com/s/uzyqbt1axcaysrn60xb5 FLASH/MODIFY @ OWN RISK. YOU WILL NEED TO REROOT*

 

[brandonabandon]

Lol do not apply my update.zip unless running zvi. Do not attempt to flash with stock recovery (it wont work.)

 

[Edward McInnish]

I feel left out :'(
lmao, jk. I honestly hope i was helpful in some way. Great job beating me to the punch. would have had a ZVK preroot, deodexd, and debloated had it not been for an 8h shift last night.

 

[brandonabandon]

Read my recent post at the rom thread. @ed