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(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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Sprints roll out began today...

In the official capacity we are now last. Right on schedule VZW.

I bet just to troll us, they announce it tomorrow but the release will be at the end of the month :laugh:

Not sure why everyone is all fired up about it. Not like 4.4 is much different than 4.2
They didn't even give us art.
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Lawlrus said:
Not sure why everyone is all fired up about it. Not like 4.4 is much different than 4.2
They didn't even give us art.
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Art isn't even ready for prime time .... it's about all the under the hood stuff kit kat brings.
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slagg3r said:
Art isn't even ready for prime time .... it's about all the under the hood stuff kit kat brings.
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Such as? Maybe I'm ignorant and the signs are right in front of me, but I haven't seen anything that makes me excited to receive it.
I'm aware once the radio sources are dropped and they are put to work a bit then the sod and random reboot issues should be taken care of, but that's about all I've seen being said.
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Lawlrus said:
Not sure why everyone is all fired up about it. Not like 4.4 is much different than 4.2
They didn't even give us art.
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Have you ran the "leaked" VZW KK build?
Kitkat is a whole different world,Completely Night and Day. Amazingly smooth, its lightening fast and extremely stable.
Art or not, this is a legitimate huge performance step forward.

deathshead said:
Have you ran the "leaked" VZW KK build?
Kitkat is a whole different world,Completely Night and Day. Amazingly smooth, its lightening fast and extremely stable.
Art or not, this is a legitimate huge performance step forward.
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Nah, I haven't played around with it yet. Honestly Ive never had any issues with the stock speed. Once animations are turned off.
Guess its one of those gotta try it to understand it thing. Coming from my last phone being the first gen droid RAZR, I've never sat back and wished my g2 had more speed.
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Lawlrus said:
Nah, I haven't played around with it yet. Honestly Ive never had any issues with the stock speed. Once animations are turned off.
Guess its one of those gotta try it to understand it thing. Coming from my last phone being the first gen droid RAZR, I've never sat back and wished my g2 had more speed.
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its alot nicer for animations, snappier, the whole kitkat look to the notification bar, fine tuning under the hood, tap and pay, cloud printing. give it a go

We probably won't see an update till after the g3 and s5 are released.
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I suspected qtr1 was out of the picture when the drop date of the m8 was announced. Vzw doesn't like to have anything current impede the new baby.
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Yeah I said that on another site and someone said updates don't affect phone sales... when the average consumer doesn't know of updates and Verizon and OEMs market "latest android software" many people will want it.
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HTC one Max on verizon got updated and yet we're still waiting. :banghead:
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It's so......awesome that the phone that was never displayed in a store gets the latest update. How can anyone want the g3 when LG cares little to get phones updated.
Htc obviously did something to convince VZW to update their stuff yet the g flex is rocking 4.2.2 and the same with ours.
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ricecake2000 said:
It's so......awesome that the phone that was never displayed in a store gets the latest update. How can anyone want the g3 when LG cares little to get phones updated.
Htc obviously did something to convince VZW to update their stuff yet the g flex is rocking 4.2.2 and the same with ours.
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I don't think it's LG in this instance. I think it's Verizon, and I think it has more to do with the m8 launch than it does with whether or not the update is ready. They don't like to have anything mess with the new revenue stream.
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garywojdan81 said:
I don't think it's LG in this instance. I think it's Verizon, and I think it has more to do with the m8 launch than it does with whether or not the update is ready. They don't like to have anything mess with the new revenue stream.
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Agreed... Think about it: would the company make more money by keeping everyone's android system slick and up-to-date, or by enticing those with outdated devices to pine over the newest phone, with the NEWEST OS? Having worked customer service for a VZW contractor in the past, I personally know that making their customers happy (with no direct profit) is at the bottom of their list.

Lawlrus said:
Such as? Maybe I'm ignorant and the signs are right in front of me, but I haven't seen anything that makes me excited to receive it.
I'm aware once the radio sources are dropped and they are put to work a bit then the sod and random reboot issues should be taken care of, but that's about all I've seen being said.
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Lawlrus said:
Not sure why everyone is all fired up about it. Not like 4.4 is much different than 4.2
They didn't even give us art.
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Bluetooth LTE will be nice to have. I've been waiting for it so I can connect to my Garmin watch and do live tracking. I need at least Android 4.3 to do this. (which VZW skipped )

I can't believe Verizon still hasn't pushed 4.4 update,this is ridiculous :banghead:
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I've given up hope. Its the usual state of mind one arrives at when dealing with VZW. You go though denial, anger and rage (quite a lot of rage) before reaching acceptance

ECrispy said:
I've given up hope. Its the usual state of mind one arrives at when dealing with VZW. You go though denial, anger and rage (quite a lot of rage) before reaching acceptance
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You are not far off the mark. It is also possible that they are not going to update the phone to 4.4.2. Just because LG stated they would be for all variants does not mean Verizon will do it. I came from an LG revolution which at point LG said would get ICS, needless to say that phone is still only running 2.3.6. We guessed that VZW cancelled the update. LG support stated that it was working on a upgrade and that it was in testing and then nothing...
I hope I am not reliving things again. If I am, at least the base phone and stock OS are really good.

Haxcid said:
You are not far off the mark. It is also possible that they are not going to update the phone to 4.4.2. Just because LG stated they would be for all variants does not mean Verizon will do it. I came from an LG revolution which at point LG said would get ICS, needless to say that phone is still only running 2.3.6. We guessed that VZW cancelled the update. LG support stated that it was working on a upgrade and that it was in testing and then nothing...
I hope I am not reliving things again. If I am, at least the base phone and stock OS are really good.
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I don't think so because there's already a stock leak build that works 100 percent. I think they're just waiting and they're gonna merge the knock code in and release it as one build rather than releasing 2 separate ones
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Enable ART on 24a w/build.prop?

Is there a way to enable ART on stock rooted 24a via build.prop? If so what do we need to change?
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Yeah, I've been scouring the web for this as well. I can't even find a decent guide to what all of the build.prop parts do, much less where ART is hiding.
Anyone out there know anything about this? I hope we don't have to wait for Android L to do this, because you know Verizon will be the last carrier to allow it.

I don't think all the LG legacy apps are compliant with ART, specifically quick remote, something to consider if you use it.

Yeah, there's that... Maybe we're better off waiting until LG updates the G2 to L, as ART will be the default.
And hopefully LG will use that as an opportunity to update their own apps.
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liteon163 said:
Yeah, there's that... Maybe we're better off waiting until LG updates the G2 to L, as ART will be the default.
And hopefully LG will use that as an opportunity to update their own apps.
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I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that Rovo figures out how to enable xposed on ART, I know I won't be updating until that happens. Xposed is too d*mn useful...
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[Q] Mahdi??

From what i hear there is a rom for the verizon lg g2 called mahdi? i cant find it anywhere on here? can someone direct me?

simple_fear85 said:
From what i hear there is a rom for the verizon lg g2 called mahdi? i cant find it anywhere on here? can someone direct me?
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It's under "Original G2 Development". Just flash the VS980 patch afterwards, ive tried that rom and it works great =)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590700

Thanks guys
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simple_fear85 said:
From what i hear there is a rom for the verizon lg g2 called mahdi? i cant find it anywhere on here? can someone direct me?
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I'm glad you asked this question. I had wondered the same thing. Now I've discovered a whole new area to explore. I had no clue there was development for all variants in a different thread.[emoji2]
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0331 said:
I'm glad you asked this question. I had wondered the same thing. Now I've discovered a whole new area to explore. I had no clue there was development for all variants in a different thread.[emoji2]
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I didn't either, and apparently, Mahdi is the most popular G2 ROM currently available. Not to mention, it was recently updated on 6/11.

UrbanBounca said:
I didn't either, and apparently, Mahdi is the most popular G2 ROM currently available. Not to mention, it was recently updated on 6/11.
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Because dr87 is the best developer on here for us. Fact ? I've been running it since the first build in January. So awesome. He's pumped so much source from the N5 into this ROM, its incredible. Stability and performance is second to none.

I installed it but my wireless charging did not work so I uninstalled it. Anybody knows about a fix?

Is see its available for Verizon correct
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Have it and it works great ☺
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simple_fear85 said:
Have it and it works great ☺
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Does the inductive wireless charging works in your Verizon G2 with this ROM?

I don't use the wireless charging, but I heard people say it does.
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[Q] Knock Code

I have downloaded Kitkat on my Verizon LG G2, however i do not have the option to use Knock Code to unlock my phone
Thanks!

prosoccer44 said:
I have downloaded Kitkat on my Verizon LG G2, however i do not have the option to use Knock Code to unlock my phone
Thanks!
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No one does (on stock at least, don't know about custom). It hasn't been released for the G2...
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Verizon doesn't support it
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Esteway.619 said:
Verizon doesn't support it
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They will. AT&T just released it for thiers a couple days ago being the 1st US carrier to do so. Verizon is usually the last to get us updates and we probably won't get it till the G3 is available, which is around July 17.
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z3pp3lin said:
They will. AT&T just released it for thiers a couple days ago being the 1st US carrier to do so. Verizon is usually the last to get us updates and we probably won't get it till the G3 is available, which is around July 17.
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Was it just a patch for Knock Code or a general KK patch? Curious if Google Music is fixed too.