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Patch for f320s/l/k

From what I am seeing in the forum if a noob like myself wants to use the international or carrier specific rom then we need to change the boot.img and some of the lib files. I am wanting to know if we can use something like aroma installer to create a patch that would flash the appropriate files needed to make roms work for the f320 variant. I don't know how to do this but am willing to help make it happen if it is possible.
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JMM2009 said:
From what I am seeing in the forum if a noob like myself wants to use the international or carrier specific rom then we need to change the boot.img and some of the lib files. I am wanting to know if we can use something like aroma installer to create a patch that would flash the appropriate files needed to make roms work for the f320 variant. I don't know how to do this but am willing to help make it happen if it is possible.
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The HK1 Custom rom converts the device to D802 in a similar fashion but resulted in me getting a soft brick and loss of Root access and a nervous restore back to good health thanks to the guys at Lg G2 forums.... http://optimusforums.com/threads/new-v1-hk-custom-rom-d802-based-100-english-for-cwm-twrp.9159/
I would approach this with caution..

[Q] Just a couple of questions

Hey, guys.
I recently purchased a new phone-LG Optimus L5 II e460
I want to change the ROM to something else but I haven't been able to find one that supports it. I looked around Google and found some things that I don't understand.
So, the first one is: What does flashing a KDZ mean?
Second one: Will doing so add something like a support for ROMs?
Third one: If it doesn't, can someone explain to me how to port a ROM to my phone (if possible)?

Flashing a KDZ file is about restoring stock ROM what you already have. First, you have to root your phone and then you need to download ClockWorkMod Recovery. In CWM Recovery you can install custom ROMs. Don't know where to download the custom ROM. You have a new phone.
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rexsis13 said:
Hey, guys.
I recently purchased a new phone-LG Optimus L5 II e460
I want to change the ROM to something else but I haven't been able to find one that supports it. I looked around Google and found some things that I don't understand.
So, the first one is: What does flashing a KDZ mean?
Second one: Will doing so add something like a support for ROMs?
Third one: If it doesn't, can someone explain to me how to port a ROM to my phone (if possible)?
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Hey man.
Welcome to the LG family! Congratulations on your purchase. I've done a little bit of research for your phone, and unfortunately came to the conclusion that your phone is only capable of being rooted. Unlocking your boot loader, installing a custom recovery and ROM is not possible yet. Even though you might not like your current stock ROM, you can always change it by rooting your phone and installing a couple of applications or tweaks that will definitely let you adjust your phone to your own liking. You can root your phone by following this small guide.
If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask!

TahaX said:
Hey man.
Welcome to the LG family! Congratulations on your purchase. I've done a little bit of research for your phone, and unfortunately came to the conclusion that your phone is only capable of being rooted. Unlocking your boot loader, installing a custom recovery and ROM is not possible yet. Even though you might not like your current stock ROM, you can always change it by rooting your phone and installing a couple of applications or tweaks that will definitely let you adjust your phone to your own liking. You can root your phone by following this small guide.
If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask!
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Thank you for the reply!
But is there any chance that it will doable in the future?

atriker512 said:
Flashing a KDZ file is about restoring stock ROM what you already have. First, you have to root your phone and then you need to download ClockWorkMod Recovery. In CWM Recovery you can install custom ROMs. Don't know where to download the custom ROM. You have a new phone.
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Thank you for explaining the term "flashing".

rexsis13 said:
Thank you for the reply!
But is there any chance that it will doable in the future?
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Definitely, as long as there's a few developers out there willing to work for this phone!

Few Mods though..
Hey there!
You can always customize the ROM to your needs!
Just download Xposed FrameWork and the modules required for your need and Voila!
Your STOCK ROM takes a new look!!
Xposed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
However, always proceed with Caution!
ALL THE BEST!!

skyinfo said:
Hey there!
You can always customize the ROM to your needs!
Just download Xposed FrameWork and the modules required for your need and Voila!
Your STOCK ROM takes a new look!!
Xposed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
However, always proceed with Caution!
ALL THE BEST!!
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Woah, that's so cool! Thanks :laugh:

Porting ROMS
rexsis13 said:
Third one: If it doesn't, can someone explain to me how to port a ROM to my phone (if possible)?
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I have not tried these, but you could read about them:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284985
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957219
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941239
ALL THE BEST!
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Another upgrade

Guys, my phone just told me there's another upgrade for the lg g2 D803 variant....Anybody seen this yet?
I'm wondering what the upgrade is, seeing it's 1.5 gb.
It's gonna take me to D803B20G. Not sure if the current rooting and autorec recovery method will work on this new firmware, sceptical about installing it......

rodpgfx said:
Guys, my phone just told me there's another upgrade for the lg g2 D803 variant....Anybody seen this yet?
I'm wondering what the upgrade is, seeing it's 1.5 gb.
It's gonna take me to D803B20G. Not sure if the current rooting and autorec recovery method will work on this new firmware, sceptical about installing it......
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1. wrong place to post this.
2. general rule of thumb - if you like having root and recovery, NEVER take an OTA from the manufacturer EVER, until it's confirmed that it doens't block root / recovery /bootloader exploits (like the 4.4 ot'as blocked loki)

jakew02 said:
1. wrong place to post this.
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Sorry, I wasn't sure where to put as there is no folder for 803 variant.....
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jakew02 said:
1. wrong place to post this.
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Sorry, I never seen a folder for the D803 variant so I wasn't sure where to put this.... Should it have gone in Q&A?

rodpgfx said:
Sorry, I never seen a folder for the D803 variant so I wasn't sure where to put this.... Should it have gone in Q&A?
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Q&A if you're asking a question about it, General if you wanted to let people know about it..

yes probably in q&a or general maybe, like stated above please dont install on your phone if youre rooted with a non stock recovery otherwise you will mess up your phone big time! really not sure if its possible but if you can, switch off firmware updates as they are not compatible with the custom recoveries and whichever rom you are using will update soon enough anyway if your on stock rom the same applies if you have a custom recovery

martindar said:
yes probably in q&a or general maybe, like stated above please dont install on your phone if youre rooted with a non stock recovery otherwise you will mess up your phone big time! really not sure if its possible but if you can, switch off firmware updates as they are not compatible with the custom recoveries and whichever rom you are using will update soon enough anyway if your on stock rom the same applies if you have a custom recovery
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I have stock Rom rooted and twrp recovery that's all.

Avoid the update.
However it has the knock knock code addon. Or, as far as I've heard, that's the only new update LG had planned for the LG G2.
Do not install it. If you REALLY want to try it, make a backup, store it on your PC, OTA. If you lose root, you can revert to stock, get a recovery, put your backup back on your phone and restore.....but that's honestly a lot of work just to possibly get the knock knock code. (I know turning on is knock on, but for the "code" you knock more than once minimum, so I call it knock knock).
You can also force supersu to keep root, but last time I tried that for an OTA I got stuck in a bootloop.
TL;DR: Might be knock on/knock knock code. Not sure what else. You can backup and try to OTA, but no one can be certain what will happen. Expect to lose root. You can force SuperSu to keep root, but you may bootloop.
I'd just wait for more info.

rodpgfx said:
I have stock Rom rooted and twrp recovery that's all.
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twrp recovery is a custom recovery, so never update.

I'm pretty sure there is an app in /system that you can freeze to stop push updates. Sadly, that is the only info I have. It may have been carrier specific and I haven't been on stock since the first week I had the phone. Haha.

Guys I already know all what you just said......I've done this loads of times. Just wondering if I can uninstall custom recovery without re-installing stock firmware?
I know I can take my chance and try the OTA but not without recovery gone first.
It's a lot of work to just flash stock firmware, install update and if there's no big change, flash stock again.....
Thats why i was wondering if the only option is flash stock to get rid of recovery

martindar said:
twrp recovery is a custom rom so never update
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Twrp is not a Rom it's a recovery. Hence the "recovery"
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Esteway.619 said:
Twrp is not a Rom it's a recovery. Hence the "recovery"
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Lol, yeah I didn't want to say anything. He should read up before doing anything with his phone.

rodpgfx said:
Guys I already know all what you just said......I've done this loads of times. Just wondering if I can uninstall custom recovery without re-installing stock firmware?
I know I can take my chance and try the OTA but not without recovery gone first.
It's a lot of work to just flash stock firmware, install update and if there's no big change, flash stock again.....
Thats why i was wondering if the only option is flash stock to get rid of recovery
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I think its possible, (but it should be really hard to do so) but the easiest way is to flash a .kdz file And you should not take the chance to update when you have recovery, it just isn't worth it. Anyways I would just have sticked with a custom rom which gets updated regulary..or flashed a kdz and get back to stock.
Btw can the good judger @Judge Joseph Dredd move the thread to q and a section? I think that it is even more help to get there

OP Moved out of the Development Threads, since this does not belong there....Please read the Forum Rules on posting.

S3 to d4....everything's different and I'm scared!

Not really scared lol. Last phone I had anything custom on was the s3. Looking around it's obvious things don't work the same.
Only thing I have done with this s4 is root. Now I'm wanting to run a rom without all the extra att bloat. So just wondering what rom and recovery I should go with. I have Nl1 if it matters.
I want the bloat gone but still have the fancy features. Any input is appreciated!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221

Lots to read. But, in case it isn't immediately obviuos, you will need SafeStrap and its recovery. You will only be able to run, for the most part, TouchWiz roms. No custom recoveries or kernels.

Yeaaa lot of reading done after posting lol. Got safestrap running and recovery. Decided on the golden eye rom. For some reason I lose imei. Created a new Rom slot for it and flashed the module after the rom.
Had this issue on the s3 but can't remember what I did to fix it. If anyone has any ideas let me know.

mustk1ll20 said:
Yeaaa lot of reading done after posting lol. Got safestrap running and recovery. Decided on the golden eye rom. For some reason I lose imei. Created a new Rom slot for it and flashed the module after the rom.
Had this issue on the s3 but can't remember what I did to fix it. If anyone has any ideas let me know.
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You have to use the stock slot. You cast use a secondary rom slot
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thanks bro working great now. everything i read said creat a rom slot. even a couple vids.

wouldn't hurt to back up efs also along with a nandroid now or however you do it on SafeStrap. Put a copy of both on PC also--:good:

backed up efs with samsung tools. nice to have an app for that now! also did nandroid.
for anyone who comes across this thread. get samsung tools here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/efs-samsung-tool-universal-support-t2602325
thanks to everyone who replied! really helped me get a grasp on how all these new things work.

mustk1ll20 said:
backed up efs with samsung tools. nice to have an app for that now! also did nandroid.
for anyone who comes across this thread. get samsung tools here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/efs-samsung-tool-universal-support-t2602325
thanks to everyone who replied! really helped me get a grasp on how all these new things work.
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Glad you got it working. ☺
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ok need to go back to stock nl1 any one know how? i searched through the "everything" thread but it doesnt list my version. just how to root. my imei is gone and wifi as well. dont know wtf happened but yea need to go to stock

anybody? i lost custom recovery as well. i don understand how this happened. gonna try and flash NB1 in stock recovery because i cant find nl1.

mustk1ll20 said:
anybody? i lost custom recovery as well. i don understand how this happened. gonna try and flash NB1 in stock recovery because i cant find nl1.
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There is no nl1. Flash the nb1 and ota to.nl1
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A question before returning to stock

I'm currently on CloudyG2 3.3 and TWRP 2.8.7.1. I've decided that custom ROMs are not for me and that my best bet is return to stock ROM, then de-bloating it later when I root and install TWRP again (I'm assuming that flashing stock ROM will get rid of everything I've made including rooting of course and my custom TWRP recovery). I've a little question though:
When I hooked up my LG G2 (D802) to my Windows 7 x64 machine for the first time, windows immediately identified it and I was able to to transfer files to/from my device. As an extra step, I've installed the drivers from a file called "LGMobileDriver_WHQL_Ver_4.0.4.exe" and it installed successfully. Now, When I plug my phone in download mode in order to flash it by clicking the button "CSE Flash" in the "LG Flash tool 2014", Windows start installing something as if it discovered something new and after many minutes of waiting for that green small circle revolving around in the taskbar to stop, I got the message "Device driver software was not successfully installed" which doesn't make feel any good about going on with the flashing. Should I be concerned with that message or it's just a stupid windows thing and the drivers are indeed installed perfectly fine and that the flashing of stock ROM should go well?

Why don't you just flash one of the rom zips from the thread that has the stock roms already rooted? You won't have any troubles

migueldbr said:
Why don't you just flash one of the rom zips from the thread that has the stock roms already rooted? You won't have any troubles
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I never thought that this is possible from what I've read previously on some thread somewhere about someone asking if he could have his stock rom in kdz format into a format understood by TWRP and as far as I remember, the replies were saying something like this is v. difficult to do and there's no point in using TWRP to flash stock which kinda defeats the purpose of using TWRP in the first place bla.
+ all I've seen here are custom ROMs. I'm not sure which thread you're talking about which has the specific stock file of my phone (D80230c_00.kdz) in a format that is understood by TWRP?!
My cell was bought from the UAE (Emirates) market which I think they've imported from the UK so I'm not sure if this firmware is the one: SRK - D80230a - 20150403-droith.zip

magoooood said:
I never thought that this is possible from what I've read previously on some thread somewhere about someone asking if he could have his stock rom in kdz format into a format understood by TWRP and as far as I remember, the replies were saying something like this is v. difficult to do and there's no point in using TWRP to flash stock which kinda defeats the purpose of using TWRP in the first place bla.
+ all I've seen here are custom ROMs. I'm not sure which thread you're talking about which has the specific stock file of my phone (D80230c_00.kdz) in a format that is understood by TWRP?!
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Of course it is possible. Here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development-d802/rom-stock-30d-flashable-zip-t3070383
It's for d802

migueldbr said:
Of course it is possible. Here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development-d802/rom-stock-30d-flashable-zip-t3070383
It's for d802
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Thanks for the thread and the info though. I'm just a little worried about pre-modified ROMs because e.g. I didn't have vodafone bloatware in the first place in my orignal stock rom as mine is international so I'm not sure what this guy's ROM is all about so I'll stick with the KDZ file which I've already downloaded but just waiting to have a confirm about that driver thing i asked in my OP

magoooood said:
I'm currently on CloudyG2 3.3 and TWRP 2.8.7.1. I've decided that custom ROMs are not for me and that my best bet is return to stock ROM...
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Just a suggestion:
Before you flash the KDZ file, try Cloudy Stock 2.7 ROM, one of the most popular ROMs for LG G2. KitKat based, rooted, debloated, better camera app, ART support, NFC / IR support... + Dorimanx 10.9 kernel to fine tune your device for better performance and / or battery life. The result is faster and more stable device compared to stock firmware. And many users report the phone works better on KK than on LP.

Val D. said:
Just a suggestion:
Before you flash the KDZ file, try Cloudy Stock 2.7 ROM, one of the most popular ROMs for LG G2. KitKat based, rooted, debloated, better camera app, ART support, NFC / IR support... + Dorimanx 10.9 kernel to fine tune your device for better performance and / or battery life. The result is faster and more stable device compared to stock firmware. And many users report the phone works better on KK than on LP.
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I don't think I'll like this idea. It's similar to downgrade from Window 7 to Windows Vista! I won't be able to tolerate using Vista as well as KK

magoooood said:
I don't think I'll like this idea. It's similar to downgrade from Window 7 to Windows Vista! I won't be able to tolerate using Vista as well as KK
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It's just the opposite in this case. This particular device works better on KK (stock firmware). There is even a video showing the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gRpa5qfKo. But you are free to decide what you want to run on your phone, it's yours. Good luck!

Val D. said:
It's just the opposite in this case. This particular device works better on KK (stock firmware). There is even a video showing the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gRpa5qfKo. But you are free to decide what you want to run on your phone, it's yours. Good luck!
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Ok, it won't hurt to give it a shot after I settle down with a daily driver ROM. Thanks for the suggestion though .
Since I'm stuck with the KDZ file from LG, I've gone a head and downloaded the ROM file from the previously mentioned thread of the ROMs ready to be used with TWRP as suggested by @migueldbr and it installed OK.
My main concern now: is it possible to flash the debloat file "FullStockG2LPDebloater.zip" (which I got from another thread here) with the nearly stock ROM I've currently installed? or it is meant to work with 100% stock non-modified ROM from LG?
P.S. I've used that particular ROM: SRK-D80230a_20150403_droidth.zip

You don't need to use any special debloater tools. Install "System app remover" from Google Play, run it and remove the apps you don't need / use. The app will tell you which one is safe to remove. It also keeps backup of uninstalled apps in case you change your mind later.

magoooood said:
Ok, it won't hurt to give it a shot after I settle down with a daily driver ROM. Thanks for the suggestion though .
Since I'm stuck with the KDZ file from LG, I've gone a head and downloaded the ROM file from the previously mentioned thread of the ROMs ready to be used with TWRP as suggested by @migueldbr and it installed OK.
My main concern now: is it possible to flash the debloat file "FullStockG2LPDebloater.zip" (which I got from another thread here) with the nearly stock ROM I've currently installed? or it is meant to work with 100% stock non-modified ROM from LG?
P.S. I've used that particular ROM: SRK-D80230a_20150403_droidth.zip
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you can use the debloater, no problem. It searches for the apk name and removes it so it works with any stock based rom probably. But to be sure, do a backup in twrp before doing it. Or just use titanium backup or another system app remover and manually delete the apks you dont want