[How-To] Rooting LS670ZVD with GingerBreak (no reverting and OTA works too!)

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1. okay so here is my question? Please tell me after i rooted (everything was perfect) i got an OTA about the sd card. I thought i would install it but it failed. Why? and do i need it? Also i thought i was on android version 2.2.2 but in my details it says now 2.2.1 Other than that I have a perfect working rooted Optimus that took on 5 minutes to root and install a great recovery.
2. I was wondering with Gingerbread coming out soon sometime. Will i get the update or have to use the Lg desktop utility? Or would i be better to wait for someone to make a stock Gingerbread rom afterwards? OR will I have to flash back to stock to get it? Excuse me for being new im trying to catch up on Lg's ways of doing things. I have an evo with zip images to flash back to stock but i guess i cant with this LG :-(
 
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davidstjohn1 said:
1. okay so here is my question? Please tell me after i rooted (everything was perfect) i got an OTA about the sd card. I thought i would install it but it failed. Why? and do i need it? Also i thought i was on android version 2.2.2 but in my details it says now 2.2.1 Other than that I have a perfect working rooted Optimus that took on 5 minutes to root and install a great recovery.
2. I was wondering with Gingerbread coming out soon sometime. Will i get the update or have to use the Lg desktop utility? Or would i be better to wait for someone to make a stock Gingerbread rom afterwards? OR will I have to flash back to stock to get it? Excuse me for being new im trying to catch up on Lg's ways of doing things. I have an evo with zip images to flash back to stock but i guess i cant with this LG :-(
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1) OTA about the sd card? What do you mean? OTA means Over The Air. I'm assuming you got an OTA notification (which has nothing to do with the SD card) and tried to install it. Are you SURE you rooted ZVD and not ZVC?

2) If/when Gingerbread comes out DO NOT UPDATE UNTIL ROOTING IS WORKED OUT. As for the Gingerbread ROM, it will probably require a new radio flash, so again, DO NOT UPDATE UNTIL ROOTING IS WORKED OUT.
 
I assume THE NEWEST ONE, would be 2.3... the OP says download THE NEWEST SDK. idk for sure tho
 
I apologize for not clarifying. I meant i got the ota for the sd card fix. I think it said vcz or something like that. It was 12.8 mgs size. I tried to install it but it failed right away. Thanks for the info, I will be patient with the gingerbread rom and wait. Btw here is a link for a handy powertoy i used to root with http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=211471 Its basically a cmd add on for right click on any folder. So u install it and then right click and have the option to open a cmd prompt on the ADB folder. It worked perfect for me. Windows seven all u have to do is hold shift/right click and u have the cmd prompt. Im sorry if that was already covered but i figured id share anyways. Oh and I am def rooted it was simple and fast. I added recovery and also wireless tether so i can share my 3G with my galaxy Tab. Which works great! The Optimus is nice now.I also added root explorer, rom manager, and titanium backup. among other apks...
 
Can someone help me? The root process freezes at this moment...


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Dong-Ju>cd C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb shell
error: closed

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb shell
$ rm -r /data/local/tmp
rm -r /data/local/tmp
$ mkdir /data/local/tmp
mkdir /data/local/tmp
$ exit
exit

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb push gingerbreak /data/local/tmp/gingerbreak
1494 KB/s (16830 bytes in 0.011s)

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb push su /data/local/tmp/su
610 KB/s (26264 bytes in 0.042s)

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox
818 KB/s (1926944 bytes in 2.299s)

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp/Superuser.a
pk
238 KB/s (94728 bytes in 0.388s)

C:\Users\Dong-Ju\Desktop\woah>adb shell
$ cd /data/local/tmp
cd /data/local/tmp
$ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/*
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/*
$ ./gingerbreak
./gingerbreak

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak
[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.
[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,
[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like
[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Detected Froyo!
[+] Found system: 0xafd14129 strcmp: 0xafd1cb9d
[+] Found PT_DYNAMIC of size 264 (33 entries)
[+] Found GOT: 0x000142a8
[+] Using device /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0
[*] vold: 0065 GOT start: 0x000142a8 GOT end: 0x000142e8
 
Thanks for this awesome guide...

I have a question ... recently, a carrier OTA update switched off the hotspot exploit for the Optimus S which was unlockable by certain apps like Hotspot Widget ...is there a way to get hotspot capability w/o rooting or is rooting the only way? Also, after rooting, how do I enable the hotspot?

BTW, my phone is new so I think already got the updated unexploitable version of the phone...
 
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hom.tanks said:
Thanks for this awesome guide...

I have a question ... recently, a carrier OTA update switched off the hotspot exploit for the Optimus S which was unlockable by certain apps like Hotspot Widget ...is there a way to get hotspot capability w/o rooting or is rooting the only way? Also, after rooting, how do I enable the hotspot?

BTW, my phone is new so I think already got the updated unexploitable version of the phone...
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After rooting, you can use a custom recovery kernel to flash Reborn ROM which AFAIK has a working wifi hotspot app.
 
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Thanks.

<begin-newbie-questions>

So I went ahead an rooted the phone. Had some initial hiccups on account of not having installed LG drivers but afterwards, things went fine.

1. I'm now trying to flash Reborn ROM. Should I install Xionia CWMA first?
2. In the instructions for Xionia, it says to copy the img files to the root of the SD card. How do I do that? Does this involves getting to the root prompt again, mounting the Windows partition where I downloaded the img files and then copying from there to /sdcard?
3. I'm assuming at any point, if I want to roll back to using the official Sprint Android version (unlikely but can happen), I can do that. Is this correct?

Sorry, I'm reasonably proficient technically but still getting accustomed to the world of Android firmware/ROMs.
<end-newbie-questions>

TIA.


Update: I figured out that if I switch off the Debug USB mode, then I can copy to my SD card from my PC.

I've installed Xionia. Will next try to figure out how to install the Reborn ROM. Thanks.
 
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I used this last week, and my phone started acting wierd (not sending sms, no internet) So i restarted it, and it went to the recovery and said something like /data/local/tmp no or corrupt img... The only thing I could do was do a factory reset.. Has anyone else experienced this?
 
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