A little good news... Semi official - LG Revolution

While you can never completely trust what support people say...
http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/carriers/verizon/topics/revolution-gingerbread-update

They were pretty good about the news when it came to the froyo update for the ally so im hopeful itll be soon

So we've heard a couple of second-hand accounts of a release in mid-October and now the LG tech saying "soon." This is good, really. It's just so hard to wait, since this phone isn't fully functional without GB. Pretty much nothing can use the front-facing camera until this comes out

aichrist said:
So we've heard a couple of second-hand accounts of a release in mid-October and now the LG tech saying "soon." This is good, really. It's just so hard to wait, since this phone isn't fully functional without GB. Pretty much nothing can use the front-facing camera until this comes out
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Just so everyone knows. The LG Esteem is the same exact phone as the LG Revolution. Just a different carrier and different OS. Myself and mtmichaelson have been trying to contact people who have the LG Esteem to get a system dump from them to make porting Gingerbread to our phones easier. Hopefully we should have something to tell you guys soon.

Woot! Keep it up guys!
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Nice!! Looking forward to what you can do.
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spc_hicks09 said:
Just so everyone knows. The LG Esteem is the same exact phone as the LG Revolution. Just a different carrier and different OS. Myself and mtmichaelson have been trying to contact people who have the LG Esteem to get a system dump from them to make porting Gingerbread to our phones easier. Hopefully we should have something to tell you guys soon.
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I only found one forum so far, they can't root it using GingerBreak..

drt054 said:
I only found one forum so far, they can't root it using GingerBreak..
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I'm not even really worried about rooting it. I just want it on my phone! Lol!

Hey guys, just a quick update before going to bed for 2 hours of sleep, root has been accomplished! I was able to help get super user working properly after they were able to gain access. It has not been released to the masses, but will be soon. In return for a little bit of my assistance, I now have in my possession the full system dump and the boot.img from the gingerbread build on the esteem and will be working to see if it can somewhat easily be ported over.
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Hey guys, just a quick update before going to bed for 2 hours of sleep, root has been accomplished! I was able to help get super user working properly after they were able to gain access. It has not been released to the masses, but will be soon. In return for a little bit of my assistance, I now have in my possession the full system dump and the boot.img from the gingerbread build on the esteem and will be working to see if it can somewhat easily be ported over.
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WHAT!?! You my friend are a God among men!
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Awesome
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Too excited!!!
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I'm all gitty with excitement!! Good things come to those who wait. Thanks MT
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You are the man!!!
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Well played Mr. Bond.

Very nice
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VS910ZV6.tot Stock!

Here it is!!
VS910ZV6_05.S6_05.P58008.R5.tot
If this helps anyone please thank me or post!!!
Rock on! How'd ya get it?
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is that for real ?
Did u root it? Revolt V6 1.6??
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drt054 said:
Did u root it? Revolt V6 1.6??
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No it is stock
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im messing around right now and figuring out if i can find anything in this file... will keep you posted
What is that?
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What is that?
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Its the Stock build for the next update to the Revolution, currently you have V4 installed.
Is that gingerbread for the LG Revolution?
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Mr Frog said:
Is that gingerbread for the LG Revolution?
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This is the updated firmware that came out a few months ago. It is Android 2.2 but supposedly has an improved radio and some other improvements. So far it is unrootable. Rumor says Gingerbread will be out sometime in October then progress will continue on CyanogenMod 7 build that TheCubed is working on.
I upgraded to this, replied on the wrong thread but here are my findings..
I am in NE Ohio and my bars are mostly full and 4g doesn't switch to 3g at all in my house but only had this for an hour now.. speed test pings faster and first test at 10Mbps when usually lower at home. Will continue testing..
Going from airplane mode back to LTE seems quicker.. Less lag time when going in to mobile data that you have to wait for connectivity. I think I will stay with this for now. I also want the GB update (rumored this month) ASAP and don't want to wait for someone to post it, then I can try to root it myself. *Fingers Crossed*

Loving this community...

Just wanted to thank everyone here for making this phone enjoyable. I come from my og droid (may she rest in peace) to the revo and i thought I'd be stuck in stock rom hell forever but you guys have done amazing things with it, so thank you all!
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Glad you like it! Hopefully CM9 can get of the ground soon to!
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I'll second that!
I jumped to Verizon the day before unlimited data went away and the best option (only option, imho) was the Revo.
I was so disappointed with the phones performance coming of a rom'd G2X (left tmo only because of poor coverage in my area). Without this awesome community this phone would be next to useless but now even my girl (she got the G2X) is jealous! Thanks guys!
same....
got the revo day before they were about to close unlimited. at that time there were only 3 phones with 4g for vzw (charge, thunderbold and the revo)
wasn't very impressed at first but after MTs and the gang's work....its pretty sweet
indyred99 said:
Glad you like it! Hopefully CM9 can get of the ground soon to!
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That would be amazing... I can only imagine how difficult it must be to port to the revo. I hereby volunteer to be the Guinea pig! Lol
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Upgrade soon revo or razr

Anyone got thoughts on keeping revo over new phone? Wife wants my upgrade n not sure I should give it up
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Its up to you. The only reason I have this phone is because of the work from all the great devs on here.
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keynith said:
Its up to you. The only reason I have this phone is because of the work from all the great devs on here.
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Yep, this. This thing was virtually un unusable out of the box. All the devs are the reason I've kept it for so long. That being said, I'm jumping when sprint releases their gnex.
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cbrebel said:
Anyone got thoughts on keeping revo over new phone? Wife wants my upgrade n not sure I should give it up
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Do what I did, upgrade to the Razr Maxx and keep your Revo as a backup!
spc_hicks09 said:
Do what I did, upgrade to the Razr Maxx and keep your Revo as a backup!
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Might go with this .. I havent been satisfied with how my revo works since I got it. Thought updates would help but no luck ...seems to me a big memory leak somewhere I can't even run my work app. Without issues and it is pretty rudementary ...my OG Droid worked great til screen died ..not a fan of LG myself either. So we shall see how it goes .....thanks for your input
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I just bought my wife a RAZR MAXX and I'm impressed. I'd say RAZR MAXX all the way. The Revolution isn't bad once you get Gingervolt on it though. It's useless without it IMO.
cbrebel said:
Anyone got thoughts on keeping revo over new phone? Wife wants my upgrade n not sure I should give it up
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Personally I'd keep the REVO (make sure it's ROM'd) and wait for the Galaxy SIII.

Ics coming on 23 in Europe

Heard ics coming don't know of true or not
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lazylu said:
Heard ics coming don't know of true or not
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Links or gtfo. The hardware is there (independent GPU), and the power is there (dual-core CPU, 512mb RAM) for ICS but this has been a pipe dream at best, please don't get our hopes up with more rumors. If you have a link, please SOS (Save Our Sanity) and post it.
This was on the o3d fourm
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All we have to go on is this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27686065&postcount=11
Not entirely sure it is reliable.
According to Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/26/lg-announces-ics-upgrades-to-begin-in-q2-2012/
According to LG's Facebook Post: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=334420639902596
I noticed they still have left the Thrill out of the loop. !
cmarriner82 said:
All we have to go on is this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27686065&postcount=11
Not entirely sure it is reliable.
According to Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/26/lg-announces-ics-upgrades-to-begin-in-q2-2012/
According to LG's Facebook Post: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=334420639902596
I noticed they still have left the Thrill out of the loop. !
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Yea u right Idky they left it out maybe like gb there gonna release it way past its time smh
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lazylu said:
Yea u right Idky they left it out maybe like gb there gonna release it way past its time smh
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Something tells me LG just doesn't want to deal with AT&T's basebands for this phone.
cmarriner82 said:
Something tells me LG just doesn't want to deal with AT&T's basebands for this phone.
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LG not even reliable
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cmarriner82 said:
Something tells me LG just doesn't want to deal with AT&T's basebands for this phone.
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And for this reason alone I flashed to a European baseband and have T-Mobile USA now.
Cynagen said:
And for this reason alone I flashed to a European baseband and have T-Mobile USA now.
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LOL. I would do the same as you (Ask for a step by step.) however, T-Mobile gets crap for reception in my town. It's not even 2G in my town, so no point in using it. AT&T in my area just recently upgraded to HSPA+. There is no 4G LTE (Even for Sprint or Verizon.)
Lol u on. 1g
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lazylu said:
Lol u on. 1g
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AT&T is the only carrier in my town, for some reason that has 3G or HSPA+ coverage.
It's how backwoods my town is.
I myself am connected to HSPA+. When I was on Sprint and had my Evo 4G, I had to go to Boston (Over an hour drive) to be able to test it out. Otherwise I'd get about 600 KBPS or so download.
O lol
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all we need is ics for 3d max... then 920 and 925 users can enjoy it
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I read somewhere on here that the only thing holding up ICS on the Thrill/O3D is a camera app that's built or the dual cameras and ICS.
cmarriner82 said:
I read somewhere on here that the only thing holding up ICS on the Thrill/O3D is a camera app that's built or the dual cameras and ICS.
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That's the Guy making the cw and he also said there's no audio where u hear this from?
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lazylu said:
That's the Guy making the cw and he also said there's no audio where u hear this from?
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Not sure. I read it in the O3D forums.
OK so today is the 23rd and I woke up and ran in here to see if santa had come last night....I still dont see any ICS hahahahahahahahaha
Lol ikr I also woke early to check
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and a late check aint working either LOL
still waiting.........

(VZW) VS980 Kitkat thread (ota captured and successfully installed)

The guide for manual install is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699123
Big v thanks to @xdabbeb
Ok kitkat was pulled off the servers and xdabbeb was able to install. It successfully.
Kitkat hasn't come yet to the verizon model but the kitkat thread is too cluttered and confusing. A couple guys agreed with me that a new thread just for verizon users would be easier to follow so we don't get all the other info mixed in. So discuss expected release dates, what you think verizon will change, how much more boat they'll add (I'm being kinda negative About this) etc. And once it officially out then we can see if anything is different than the other versions since they tend to change it a little than other carriers. Maybe we'll get something nice that other carriers didn't. Who knows.
And If there's any verizon employees that's like to drop a hint for us. PLEASE DO we won't tell
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I heard March 20 form a best buy employee who owns a g2. Don't really trust the accuracy but thought I'd throw it out there.
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Thanks for taking the initiative on this. Sounds like it's not too dev friendly for the immediate future though. I wonder if 2nd init or kexec might be the direction to go.
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OP thank you for starting this thread lmao finally a place for vs980 it's obviously his month but we will all have to look out for leaks x_x and testing stuff x) I'm prolly guessing that the march 20th date sounds about right or maybe after :0 just my thoughts
Great job for starting this thread? wish someone would start a sprint only thread it's very confusing since there seems to be so many varieties of the lg-g2
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maybe if XDA actually listened to it's members, we'd have had the G2 forums broken up into each variant as a separate board MONTHS ago....
abdel12345 said:
Kitkat hasn't come yet to the verizon model but the kitkat thread is too cluttered and confusing. A couple guys agreed with me that a new thread just for verizon users would be easier to follow so we don't get all the other info mixed in. So discuss expected release dates, what you think verizon will change, how much more boat they'll add (I'm being kinda negative About this) etc. And once it officially out then we can see if anything is different than the other versions since they tend to change it a little than other carriers. Maybe we'll get something nice that other carriers didn't. Who knows.
And If there's any verizon employees that's like to drop a hint for us. PLEASE DO we won't tell
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Thanks for starting this thread. I agree was hard finding info for VS980 on other thread.
I have a feeling verizon will keep the ugly blue icons. I would even settle for jb blue rather than the ugly ics colored ones ha ha
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ricecake2000 said:
I have a feeling verizon will keep the ugly blue icons. I would even settle for jb blue rather than the ugly ics colored ones ha ha
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I think Google is requiring the white icons as a standard now but you never know with verizon lol. They seem to break all the rules especially with how different they made the g2.
The 20th date sounds reasonable. I hope they can get it by then because I hear lots of people estimating April but I hope they're just exaggerating Verizon's slowness
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I would love the white icons. It's grown on me. The blue seams kinda childish
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Agh. You got me so excited when I read the first few words of this forum title
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abdel12345 said:
I think Google is requiring the white icons as a standard now but you never know with verizon lol. They seem to break all the rules especially with how different they made the g2.
The 20th date sounds reasonable. I hope they can get it by then because I hear lots of people estimating April but I hope they're just exaggerating Verizon's slowness
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The droid line kept the blue icons. Lol
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ricecake2000 said:
The droid line kept the blue icons. Lol
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Oh ok. But was that verizon that did it or Motorola? Because lg switched to white. Hopefully they'll keep them. I like the white color or at least a blue on black status bar. The gray one sucks
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Mattecko99 said:
Agh. You got me so excited when I read the first few words of this forum title
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Lol sorry. I made sure to put that "not released yet at the end" because of this I would put it arty the beginning but than the rest of the title won't show. Sorry about that
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I can't wait to get kitkat, but sometime in the future I'm going to end up modding this phone and kitkat breaks the Loki exploit. :/ I really don't want to go back to a safestrap sort of boot like with my razr. Hopefully the devs can find a way around these stupid "fixes" by lg.
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Thanks OP. I just joined Verizon and the g2.
I hope kit Kat has the white icons, but if not, isn't full root and a custom recovery available for the g2?
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Rippley05 said:
Thanks OP. I just joined Verizon and the g2.
I hope kit Kat has the white icons, but if not, isn't full root and a custom recovery available for the g2?
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From what I've read elsewhere it seems the KK update borks the Loki implementation used by most of the root exploits.
I can't imagine it won't be bypassed but at least initially it won't be the same as it has been for JB.
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ooddiittyy said:
From what I've read elsewhere it seems the KK update borks the Loki implementation used by most of the root exploits.
I can't imagine it won't be bypassed but at least initially it won't be the same as it has been for JB.
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Supposedly if you are rooted prior to taking the OTA update, you'll retain root in 4.4. Although if you manually flash the stock 4.4 rom using the LG Flasher tool, it'll wipe and remove root. I'm not sure if they were able to actually root 4.4 yet either (needs verifying).
Still even with root, they haven't been able to get a custom recovery on it yet because of the Loki patch. The G2 is a popular device, so I'm sure it won't be long.
Thanks guys. I'm still researching everything I've missed the last few months
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jayochs said:
maybe if XDA actually listened to it's members, we'd have had the G2 forums broken up into each variant as a separate board MONTHS ago....
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+1
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