This weekend I'll be leaving Spain to settle down in the UK (in Edinburgh in case you are curious ). There I'll need the phone to be 100% operating because I won't have any chance (at least not the first weeks) to change the rom. It cannot fail, so I planned reflashing the latest stock ROM to avoid possible future problems. I was wondering, will installing the UK stock version make any difference (for the basebands and so on) or should I just go for the latest stable relase? If that's the case, what's the latest one? Some say it's V20S, some V20L...
I accept recommendations about installing other roms which are not stock as long as they won't fail at making and receiving calls, pictures and have a good battery life.
Temasek cm7 and chuck Norris X won't fail man
Also last European version is v20s.
You adapt by buying sim card of that country
Not another things are required (maybe setting new apn if not detected automatically).
That's all. Happy travel ^_^
If you want to play with baseband, you can install stock Rom which works 100 % or install v20s BB with 0823/0725 ril (only one has that double name)
Or install standard working combo of 0725 ril and 0725 BB which works for me un UK.
V10d versions must be for cm7 Roms.
Sent from LG 2X using Tapatalk 3 Beta
Thank you! I'll try those custom roms and give them a go!
No adaption needed lol its quad band, just buy a sim in the country your going.
Good luck. It's not easy changing countries, specially if you're by yourself.
Buena suerte?
Related
Hi all
I am just getting a head of myself here but I am wondering if I can learn before I start flashing my LG O2X.
I am in Australia and I am wondering which firmware (full stock) is most preferred at the moment?
I read in the firmware sections and it seems as if the not all stock firmware are very stable (Some people are complaining that it sucks out of the juice badly).
so any suggestions (links will help heaps) is much appreciated.
any link to good tutorial to flash the firmware is also greatly appreciated.
Thanks
sorry for the newbie questions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1037751
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Firmware stock
ardabelati said:
Hi all
I am just getting a head of myself here but I am wondering if I can learn before I start flashing my LG O2X.
I am in Australia and I am wondering which firmware (full stock) is most preferred at the moment?
I read in the firmware sections and it seems as if the not all stock firmware are very stable (Some people are complaining that it sucks out of the juice badly).
so any suggestions (links will help heaps) is much appreciated.
any link to good tutorial to flash the firmware is also greatly appreciated.
Thanks
sorry for the newbie questions
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035041
Cheers guys!
I am still confused with all this term of base band and firmware used for LG o2x.
On my Samsung if i want to update my stock firmware i just need to go to samfirware download the latest one . Open ODIN as the flashing application, put the downloaded firmware package and press start.
Is this the same process in LG?
Do i need to root first? Where can I download the latest firmware package for LG?
Thanks again guys
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Hello!
This depends...
If you only want the latest firmware provided by LG - just use the LG Update tool, follow its instructions and click start - wait a few minutes and voila.
Only working with an unbranded phone of course - in case of a branded phone you might have to wait for the OTA from your provider.
But you might have to wait at least another 6 Month for the next update from LG - last Update by LG(in Nov.) was to Android 2.3.4 and still has some bugs - ICS(Android 4.0) is in the making but...
If you want root, a custom rom(I would say CM7 is a lot better than stock rom - my opinion) with all the latest updates(i.e. Android 2.3.7 may be an ICS-build for X-mas ) and/or an OC/UV kernel it is a little more complicated.
Thanks for the prompt reply.
So... it sounds like the CM7 has won lots of hearts.
If I want to update mine (stock unbranded), which tutorial should I use?
since I am completely new to LG, any step by step (from the beginning) tutorial will help greatly.
I am after total stability and good battery - I am only using camera/video recording, playing videos, musics, skype/fring/viber and also some small games like angry birds etc.. good GPS lock is a bonus.
So any recommendation is greatly appreciated
Thank you
Medizinmann said:
Hello!
This depends...
If you only want the latest firmware provided by LG - just use the LG Update tool, follow its instructions and click start - wait a few minutes and voila.
Only working with an unbranded phone of course - in case of a branded phone you might have to wait for the OTA from your provider.
But you might have to wait at least another 6 Month for the next update from LG - last Update by LG(in Nov.) was to Android 2.3.4 and still has some bugs - ICS(Android 4.0) is in the making but...
If you want root, a custom rom(I would say CM7 is a lot better than stock rom - my opinion) with all the latest updates(i.e. Android 2.3.7 may be an ICS-build for X-mas ) and/or an OC/UV kernel it is a little more complicated.
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ardabelati said:
Thanks for the prompt reply.
So... it sounds like the CM7 has won lots of hearts.
If I want to update mine (stock unbranded), which tutorial should I use?
since I am completely new to LG, any step by step (from the beginning) tutorial will help greatly.
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Frist things First - backup all you date before you start because the phone RAM/ROM will be wiped!
If your phone comes with Froyo (Android 2.2.2) you could go right ahead and start after the ***-line
...if your phone comes already with GB (Android 2.3.4 – look under setting on the about page!) you need to smartflash a CM7-compatible baseband (i.e. 0725 for Froyo or 0823 as I use it).
Guide to flash baseband – only needed if your phone some with GB(Android 2.3.4)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008070
A German guide with downloadlinks…
http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/lg_op...-lg_optimus_speed_p990_aktuelle_baseband.html
If you try the newest baseband on this page (0823 – 23.08.11) you must flash all 4 files in descending order of filesize – the others are single files which are easier to use.
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The easiest way would be to root the phone with SuperOneClick.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/superoneclick-updated-to-2-2-now-features-zergrush-exploit/
…and then use Clockworkmod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098745) or Rom Manager to flash the latest KANG, since there aren’t any up to date Nightly’s because the CM7-build bot server is broken.
A Guide is in the Wiki pages for the LG P990…
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/LG_Optimus_2X:_Full_Update_Guide#Method_via_ROM_Manager
You could use either one of these KANGs…
Rusty:
http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/gigglebread/p990/
temasek:
http://www.mediafire.com/temasek
koboltzz:
http://www.4shared.com/folder/9Y9RYzQA/_online.html
Don’t forget to flash the latest gapps for GB 2.3.7 (right now AFAIK version from14th Dez.)– you can find them on temaseks-mediafire account.
Just place KANG-Files and Gapps on your SD card before you enter boot recovery.
At the end you need GetRIL or LG RIL versions from the market to update you RIL because the preinstalled baseband of you new phone is almost probably 0725 and CM7 comes always with 0218 – just download GET RIL and hit the install button…
Now you should be good to go.
If you are even more adventurers you could look into the ironkrnL for more performance/powersaving – see my sig. and/or look in the ironkrnL-Thread at xda and flash an ironkrnL after the gapps.
ardabelati said:
I am after total stability and good battery - I am only using camera/video recording, playing videos, musics, skype/fring/viber and also some small games like angry birds etc.. good GPS lock is a bonus.
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So “only” about everything one could do with a Smartphone…
Latest ironkrnL-builds with 00 or 32 ramhack should do it(stability and good battery) - but you might need to set the ring delay between 3000-4000 in the build.prop found in /system (you need a root-capable filemanager/editor i.e. ES Datei Explorer (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop or Rom Tool from the market). I had a problem with the preset delay of 225.
Hope that helped...
Any Body has update to V20E in Hong Kong ? anything change ?
I found the previous V20D was quite buggy, quite a few unexplained issues during normal use. I flashed CM7 and happy with it, not interest on stock rom anymore.
I don't want to give up stock rom coz want to know can update to ICS in one day
( Fairy Tail only )
me2, I've updated to 20e, it seems to be a little bit better than 20d.
The Update was disable !!!
Eric_L_2011 said:
I don't want to give up stock rom coz want to know can update to ICS in one day
( Fairy Tail only )
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You don't have to worry about that, you can flash back to stock rom at anytime. I did it few times without any problem.
The thread below described how to a flash stock rom file (.kdz):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1327929
It's recommended to download your current kdz rom file from LG web site:
1. open a browser and type this in address bar: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/auth_model_check2.jsp?esn=XXX...XXX
replace XXX...XXX with IMEI number of your phone;
2. it will return a long string contained a URL of a kdz file ('http://csmg.lgmobile.com.....kdz')
3. copy that URL and download that kdz file to your HDD.
i.e. URL for V20D: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/LGP990/AHKGBK/V20d_00/V20D_00.kdz;
In my case, I was using other custom rom before, when LG release GB I flashed my phone back to V10F followed the method above, and then used LG tools on-line upgraded to V20D.
Hi Eric and hkkp,
My experience is CM7 give me a smoother experience and better battery life:
http://bbs.hiapk.com/thread-2931011-1-1.html
However, you need to update the latest CM7 kernel in order to fix the "sleep death" problem:
http://www.4shared.com/folder/9Y9RYzQA/_online.html
Advantage of stock rom is better screen and photo quality.
Someone have modified and improve the stock rom, I have tried and it is better than the stock one. If you really care about the camera and video quality more than smoothness and performance, you should use this:
http://www.angeeks.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1848884&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D14%26typeid%3D14
I am look forward to the ICS. CM9 will come up very soon. It will release before the formal LG one.
Our india got same v20e at same nearby date of hong kong.
Its somewhat better and had heridetry proxy settings in wifi. I dint use it long but it was less battery eater. May be it was optimized for asian sim providers.
Sent from my LG-P990 using Tapatalk
switched to MIUI rom now, it has a bit more functions which is useful for me. MIUI + ironKernel + Go Launcher, sounds like a perfect combination.
I believe when LG release ICS, there must be CM9 and/or some other better custom rom out there. I won't go back to stock rom unless I need to bring my phone back to LG repairing centre.
Hi,
I am from India and a newbie to Android world.
I have a LG stock ROM(optimus 2x p990 Gingerbread). The factory version of the ROM is LGP990AT-00-V20e-ESA-XXX-OCT-28-2011.
The baseband is 1035.21_20110725
After taking a backup of image of Stock ROM with CWM,I have installed Gueste 2x v3.6 Hybrid Revolution, with symbiosis kernel.I have found it to be stable with good GUI
I have observed a heavy battery drain, with RIL v10d(Europe)
I am planning to flash 218 baseband as suggested by stefan.
But before doing so, I want to clear my doubts and have few requests
1) what are the best settings for a good battery life? I am switching to 2g networks when not surfing/downloading.
I am also using lots of apps, for my kid, who uses my mobile for a hour or so.
2)In case I need to go to Stock LG ROM, where can I get the original baseband, as I do not find it it anywhere, so as to to restore the CWM backup.
3) Stefan- Your ROM is wonderful. I have got few requests.Can you please port the stock LG Messaging app, Contacts app & "Backup & Restore" app .
Thanks
I am also from India.
I am using 0725 Baseband with v20d(Asia) RIL.
I dont have any battery problems whatsoever on this baseband and RIL combo. I get a straight 1 and half day on moderate usage (Few call and texting, 2g browsing for an hour or so, some music listening)
Battery drain wont be always due to baseband. It may also depend on some of the Apps you use which run in background.
Check the battery usage from the settings and see which program is using most of your battery.
Press "THANKS" if this helped.
Use the search function instead of starting a new thread. Please close this one.
Thanks Shane582.
I am sure that the battery drain was due to wrong bb (725) and RIL(v10d Europe).
As I am unable to get the LGP990AT-00-V20e-ESA-XXX-OCT-28 version of KDZ, I had posted the mail here, hoping that some one may help me.
Anyway this is not required now.
Also since this was my first post, I couldn't thank Stefan for his superb ROM( Gueste 2x v3.6 Hybrid Revolution )
found at the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1464986
Also I do a search properly, hoping to find a solution. Hence till date for the past one month, I was able to flash CWM, 5 different ROMs and come to a satisfactory solution for the issues faced.
Excepting for some rookies, I found the forum quite helpful, for sorting out all kinds of problems
Thanks everyone.
how to unroot and restore
Hi,
I am from India and a newbie to Android world.
I have a LG stock ROM(optimus 2x p990 ) rooted and running on cm9 NOVA HD ICS i want to unroot and restore stock gingerbread, how to i do it ???
MY BACK IS NOT WORKING DONT KNOW HOW.
WAITING FOR SOLUTION ...
THANKS
FULL STOCK LG ICS roms V30A & V30B
This is for people that want stock experience with the possibility of root, busybox and init.d support, but don't want the blingbling or tweaks from a custom rom.
These are full stock roms, meaning it is still odexed.
Modifications are help tools and have no effect on the stability and performance compared to a OTA updated.
INSTALLATION
ICS unlocked bootloader required with ICS partition layout.
Custom recovery for ICS.
Full wipe if coming from a different rom.
Install with custom recovery.
It is best to use the V30.. baseband for this.
V30B and V30A are different, first thing I did this morning was check them again.
V30A got more code then V30B , this is probably because V30A needs to support a wider region with more providers.
The strange thing to me is that LG gave it the same Baseband number 1035.21_20121130.
So it is possible that depending on the region you live in V30B or V30A is better.
To be very clear the ril of V30A and V30B are 100% the same so it can't be that if you get better connection
Note:
These are full stock LG ICS roms with the following modifications.
-Root
(SU 3.1.3)
-BusyBox 1.20.2
(Busybox is installed as primary and not default toolbox)
-Init.d support (Ramdisk modded for this)
For people that want to use scripts, like V6Supercharger or any other that needs init.d.
Folder is already present in "system/etc"
-Data mounted in EXT4 like the rest of the system.
(Ramdisk modded for this)
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V30A
(CWM installation)
-Build date: Nov-30-2012
-EU region (open)
-Build for the following countries:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, France Caraibes, France Reunion, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Swiss, UK
V30B
(CWM installation)
-Build date: Dec-18-2012
-ESA region (open)
-Build for the following countries:
Algeria,Angola,Bahrain,Iran,Ghana,D.R. Congo,Iraq,Israel,Ivory coast,Jordan,Kenya,Kuwait,Lebanon,Nigeria,Oman,Palestine,Qatar,Saudi,Senegal,SouthAfrica,Syria,Tunisia,Turkey,UAE,India.
-Side info , these roms are fully based on the stock KDZ files that I extracted and pulled the full system from it and turned it into a cwm flashable package.
I used spyrosk Toolkit for it and kitchen with .img extraction tool. This way I got a clean boot.img and system dump .img that I then turned into a system build folder.
The same way I build my custom roms
-Every one that wants can use these roms as a base for a custom rom that they want to build.
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I will add any new LG stock release in the future , so if you got a stock LG KDZ file just link it for me.
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V30-TOOLBOX
Install with CWM
V30STOCK-LG-APP-WIPER
(see attachments for download)
Aroma wiper with the following options:
"Delete OTA update app,
(This app is only installed in V30A)
"Delete OnScreenPhone"
"Delete LG pc sync tool"
"Delete LG Cellbroadcast"
"Delete LG Remote Call service"
V30STOCK-SU660-EXTRA_WIDGETS
(see attachments for download)
Aroma installer with the following options:
"ApplicationManagerWidget"
"CalendarWidget"
"MusicWidget"
"PowerWidget"
:good:Thanks buddy ... Very Good Job:good:!
Thanks
Enviado desde mi O2X
thanks for v30b, grateful for this...
Civato or some Dev here make one for the old bootloader? Tks
ToolBox
Added in OP=
V30-TOOLBOX
Install with CWM
V30STOCK-LG-APP-WIPER
Aroma wiper with the following options:
"Delete OTA update app, Only available on V30A"
"Delete OnScreenPhone"
"Delete LG pc sync tool"
"Delete LG Cellbroadcast"
"Delete LG Remote Call service"
V30STOCK-SU660-EXTRA_WIDGETS
Aroma installer with the following options:
"ApplicationManagerWidget"
"CalendarWidget"
"MusicWidget"
"PowerWidget"
And what do we click when a post was useful?
Hi, reporting here.
I had a bsod connecting the phone to USB when the screen was off.
World clock crashes.
I put a timer 1hour and after 30~ min the phone restarted itself.
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium
Thanks for you hard work and about the list of language with V30b it as shown like the attachment picture so I can use Thai too
Hi everybody, I have a question for u.
I really confuse to install it. Im stock rooted 2.3.4-V20s
Baseband is 1035.21_20120521
I wanna upgrade my phone to V30b, However how can I do it? What should I do first?
k101d said:
Thanks for you hard work and about the list of language with V30b it as shown like the attachment picture so I can use Thai too
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Both 30A and 30B are distributed multilanguage even each of them has a different region distribution.
Thai language is already included in 30B, the same of Italian used by me.
Civato, maybe you should explain in your first post that region does not mean multilanguage options.
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mesutziya said:
Hi everybody, I have a question for u.
I really confuse to install it. Im stock rooted 2.3.4-V20s
Baseband is 1035.21_20120521
I wanna upgrade my phone to V30b, However how can I do it? What should I do first?
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First,
you should read a lot my friend.....and get the AIOT....allinonetoolkit, download the baseband (if required)download the ROM....
but i would suggest you to read as it will help you understand this process well....which will help more than anyone else....
Please dont take it as an offense mate
SREEPRAJAY said:
First,
you should read a lot my friend.....and get the AIOT....allinonetoolkit, download the baseband (if required)download the ROM....
but i would suggest you to read as it will help you understand this process well....which will help more than anyone else....
Please dont take it as an offense mate
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Thanks SREEPRAJAY.
I already have problem with allinonetoolkit, I know how to do it but I should upgrade baseband and also i should change partitions from old to new layout and after all I will use cwm to install this rom.
However I confused that which one should be first? Upgrade baseband or change partition.
the second one first mate
Then flash BB then ROM,
Hope it is ok
O2X with Magical ICS ROM and supersonic kernels from my buddies
Thanks Civato.
SREEPRAJAY said:
the second one first mate
Then flash BB then ROM,
Hope it is ok
O2X with Magical ICS ROM and supersonic kernels from my buddies
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Really thanks buddy
How stable is this, my missus has the 2x and is constantly having problems she's been telling me today that she's already had to do a battery pull 4 times today because the instability.
All I need is a rom that's solid and stable and just works I don't care about fancy tweaks and speed just save me some ear ache Is this the rom to try?
Drefsab said:
How stable is this, my missus has the 2x and is constantly having problems she's been telling me today that she's already had to do a battery pull 4 times today because the instability.
All I need is a rom that's solid and stable and just works I don't care about fancy tweaks and speed just save me some ear ache Is this the rom to try?
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This is full stock with no tweaks , only help tools like full root , init.d and busybox. These things have no effect on stability.
If you got problems with this you got a problem with your phone.
I've not flashed this rom I've used others and others have not been stable hence why I was asking how stable this one actually is, is the stock good enough to be used as a daily driver? After all LG have not been known for their bug free stock roms in the past I mean no offence to the quality of your work just wondering how good LG's latest version is.
Drefsab said:
I've not flashed this rom I've used others and others have not been stable hence why I was asking how stable this one actually is, is the stock good enough to be used as a daily driver? After all LG have not been known for their bug free stock roms in the past I mean no offence to the quality of your work just wondering how good LG's latest version is.
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well i have the same question can any one help
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda app-developers app
I've been using this on my partners phone for a while and I keep getting a very weird issue I've not seen on any other phone. Randomly when I wake the phone up the screen is flipped and the colours seams to be like a negative. If I press power to blank the screen the power again its all fine.
Is there a relationship between bootloaders and basebands? I mean, can I use an old BB (say a v20a or v20g) BB with the new bootloader? Anyone tried it? I'm asking because I've flashed a stock ICS (aka v30a BB, new bootloader) and then moved on to ParanoidAndroid by TonyP. But now I wish to test how my 3G behaves on my original BB, but I don't want to re-install everything. If I can keep the new bootloader, a simple nandroid backup will do for the inevitable wipe caused by the BB flashing.
rcoacci said:
Is there a relationship between bootloaders and basebands? I mean, can I use an old BB (say a v20a or v20g) BB with the new bootloader? Anyone tried it? I'm asking because I've flashed a stock ICS (aka v30a BB, new bootloader) and then moved on to ParanoidAndroid by TonyP. But now I wish to test how my 3G behaves on my original BB, but I don't want to re-install everything. If I can keep the new bootloader, a simple nandroid backup will do for the inevitable wipe caused by the BB flashing.
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Install GetRil on your phone (you can find it on Play Store),it'd say you if you BB and you ril are compatible or not.
Spennacchionr said:
Install GetRil on your phone (you can find it on Play Store),it'd say you if you BB and you ril are compatible or not.
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I'm asking about bootloaders, not RILs. Since I'll keep on using PA, I'll use whatever RIL comes with the ROM. As Tonyp explains in the Basebands thread, you don't mess with RILs in CM10 based ROMs (which PA is one of).
You can use v10 v20 bb with no problems at all. I think the best option for cm10 roms is to use old bbs since with v30 bbs cm10 roms show one hour less than it should be. I meab the time is now 8:30 but on a cm10 rom it would show 7:30
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bitdomo said:
You can use v10 v20 bb with no problems at all. I think the best option for cm10 roms is to use old bbs since with v30 bbs cm10 roms show one hour less than it should be. I meab the time is now 8:30 but on a cm10 rom it would show 7:30
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda app-developers app
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Well, I've never had those time problems. Maybe it's because I don't get time from my network (I try but it seems that they don't send it anyway ).
Since I need some time to do the backup, I'll try flashing the baseband on the weekend and when I have the results I'll post it here.