ZVH OTA update.zip
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so what does this exactly mean? no gb update or will just take some time
It means that yes there is an update (which will be rolled out over the next 10 days) but no there is no way to update OTHER THAN the OTA update.
The OTA update is absolutely unrootable as far as my tests have shown.
The way we could update is by using the LG tool whilst having a custom recovery flashed because AFAIK the LG tool does not touch the recovery partition.
BUT there is no update available on the LG servers anywhere for any phone.
tl;dr
There IS an OTA Gingerbread update available. No you can't root it.
Are you sure they work? I used a proxy to watch where the updater tool actually pings and what it pulls down and its not the same as those instructions indicate. I pulled a bunch of stuff (Maintenance notes, etc) from the server but I cant find the golden egg, lol It coulda been just the time I attempted, I dont know. But they were different address and I was forming the urls with a non refurbed device. Just sayin...
And? What do you need besides badio and boot image and the system partition? Thats what that zip has. Why dont you mod the updater script to flash the radio along side the boot? Have you tried that yet?
Im gonna pop this thing wide open in about 3.75 hours! Lets collaborate our efforts to stream line this. I am confident that the zip file is all we need to make this happen! LMK!
EDIT: As far as root: What have you tried? I know some methods that work amazingly well.
EDIT2: Your right the recovery partition is not going to be touched which makes me think this will be even easier than you think ;c)
-Scott
Hi Drew,
Unlike past updates, the ZVD->ZVH update does not patch the existing recovery AFAICT.
If you were running ZVD stock recovery prior to update.zip, you should still be running ZVD stock recovery afterwards.
Since ZVD stock recovery is rootable using gingerbreak, you should be able to root the stock ZVD recovery after the ZVH update.zip.
Of course once you do that, everything is open.
Could you confirm? Hopefully the analysis is correct.
Your correct about recovery. I know this for a fact. Also, the way you are suggestion is the hard way. Its actually much simpler than you may think. Trust me
ok so if i revert an unroot an update to the bg update would i be able to revert back an get cm7 back or no. cus id like to check out the gb update but id like to go back to cm7 if i dont like it or just in case something goes wrong/
You just need to root boot.img and /system then flash. Thats all it will take man. IM telling you, its going to be very easy. They left this update wide open.
Won't work with the new radio. You NEED the new radio. But the new radio cannot be flashed outside of the OTA update.zip
It's not that easy.
Are you assuming someone is not running stock recovery?
If not, then won't rooting boot.img cause update.zip to fail the integrity check in stock recovery?
If you are not running stock recovery, which custom recovery are you running that can properly flash the radio?
Sorry I haven't been following Optimus that closely so maybe things have progressed since I last remember.
Yeah that's what I meant, sorry.
Radio.img CANNOT be flashed with ANY custom recovery image, it WILL cause a brick 100% of the time.
I think it was just a typo. He posted earlier he had the update installed while running the old radio and it wasn't working well.
Ok that's what I needed to know. Hmmm.... So your saying at this time we cant flash the radio with the other recoveries. Ok, that makes sense then. I see what you are saying. That does add a bit of a challenge.
Why cant we? You said it results in brick 100% of the time. What is the exact issue that causes it to fail? Does the recovery not understand the correect mount points or something?
Last I recall LG flashes the radio in some non-obvious way passing some parameters in a partition back to the stock recovery and nobody who wrote custom recoveries could get it working outside of stock recovery. They tried to emulate what the stock recovery was doing, but it kept bricking the phone.
If you can get radio flashing working in a custom recovery, I'm sure people would appreciate it.
Thats what I needed to know...
Ok... Hmmm... That adds a twist. I got a couple ideas I need to research.
If you are researching how to flash the radio within custom recovery, that would be helpful.
If you are researching ideas on rooting, we already know how to root when the stock recovery is rootable.
I don't have an Optimus handy so I can't test what I suggested to Drew earlier, but in theory it should work.
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