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[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
The LG L5 E617G variant can certainly be rooted, have an unlocked bootloader, as well as run CyanogenMod. The Bell variant can use a custom kernel.

Firstly:

- Root the device using the guide in this thread.

- Verify that you have a SuperUser app installed, and you're able to achieve root status. The best way to check is by downloading SuperSU, and updating the binaries.

Secondly:

- Unlock the bootloader by downloading emmc_appsboot_617_truncated.zip in this thread. (Thanks Skellums!)

- Turn on USB Debugging in Developer Options, (if you can't see Developer Options in the settings menu, continuously tap on Build Number in About in Settings).

- When you plug in your device, if you have an SDCard, you should see two storage spaces within the LG L5 MTP. Place the bootloader file in root of the phone storage (which the devices sees as the SDCard). The actual SDCard is the external SDCard which ADB has trouble seeing on occasion.

- Plug in your device to the PC, and make sure its loaded into Android.

- Download the fastboot/adb files here, and extract them to C:/fastboot/. Open the command prompt in windows, and type:

cd C:/fastboot

then...

adb devices

...and make sure you see your device, then...

adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/emmc_appsboot-backup.bin
dd if=/sdcard/emmc_appsboot_617_truncated.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5
reboot

- Now, you should have an unlocked bootloader. If you get any "file not found errors", you placed the emmc file in the wrong directory

Thirdly:

- You now need a recovery, so let your phone reboot, and when its back to the main screen, make sure the device is plugged in, open the command prompt, and follow the instructions here.

Fourthly:

- Any CyanogenMod works very nicely on the L5 E617G. You can get CM10.1 along with gapps here or CM10.2 here or the amazing CM11 here. Before heading back to recovery, you will need the CM10.1 ROM, GAPPS, v20 BaseBand, and WakeWithHomeAndPower_signed.zip (Optional) and v10 Baseband (For restore purposes if something goes wrong).

- Copy all those zips to the root of your external SD, and then run the command:

adb reboot recovery

- Before anything, create a NANDROID BACKUP! Make sure to backup to the external SD, as you probably would have more space to work with.

- Then, factory reset your device in recovery. You can now flash CM10.1, by choosing "install zip from external sd card". Flash the v20 baseband, then the ROM, then gapps, then the wake with home fix.

Done!

- Upon reboot, you should have CM working very well on your LG L5 E617G!

Note: You can also get to recovery with the L5 but holding down Vol Down and Home, while pressing the power button for 2 seconds.

Disclaimer: I wrote this article because I, myself, had quite the experience in getting CM10.1 running on this L5 variant, and I wanted to show that it's certainly possible, thanks to the hard work by all the devs here! Good luck!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
Thank you, good sir! I have now installed CM10.1!

I ended up running the recovery twice - after the first time, during the reboot, it just hung at the LG logo so I turned it off and back on and then repeated the recovery install steps and it was fine after the second time (now that I think about it I should've just tried issuing the "adb reboot recovery" command again instead).

Phone definitely much snappier and I haven't had any problems so far! Thank you again! :)
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
It's been a couple of days now and all seems to be running smoothly!

The only issue I have with CM on my L5 is that the video seems to cause issues - it'll work the first time but then hangs afterwards and subsequent attempts just give an error. Rebooting is the only cure. Not a huge deal for me though.

The rest of the phone runs great, definitely smoother and snappier than stock.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
Now my camera/video recording is working just fine today. Go figure.

Loving the speed vs the stock stuff!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
I've noticed the same thing. Once and a while, the video camera will freeze, and then force close. Reopening it causes "Gallery has stopped.". It's really finicky, but a reboot usually does the trick. Not sure if it's a ROM issue or a E617G issue, but you're not alone!

Pictures seem fine, I would suggest staying away from the video recording for now.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
I seem to recall having these issues a long time ago with the stock ROM too, now that I think about it. Not a big deal for me, easier to just avoid using the video camera.

I've even gone and flashed the latest (as of today) beta 5 of CM 10.1 as well - works just great as well!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
Great! I'm going to try the kernel that was also posted and attempt to overclock.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
Oh wow! Post your results if it all works out!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
I have successfully flashed lge-e610-v3.4.0-13-08-2013_20-59.zip and overclocked the device to 1000Mhz!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
Same here now! Whoohoo!!
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] Barbanish:
Thank you, good sir! I have now installed CM10.1
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
I've installed beta 6 and now the video is working just fine (no hangs!).

I did find that I wasn't able to boot into recovery - I had to reflash recovery from ROM Manager.

I then tried to flash the custom OC kernel and that resulted in a blank screen, so back into recovery and reflash beta 6 again.

So I've lost the overclock but meh, I'm ok with waiting for an updated kernel.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] koimr:
New kernel was posted, I've flashed and it works - OC is back! :good:
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] spuzzum:
fastboot adb files

Hey is it possible to re up the fastboot adb files i get a "file not found" ....or is it just the general adb install for android, if so i already have it from when i did my atrix. but if i need certain files then it would be great if someone could tell me, thx bunches
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
A quick Google search usually gets what you need.

http://d-h.st/5Xy
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] spuzzum:
Thx , searched the forums to see if there were special files or if it was just adb.I found nothing concrete and I already had adb installed so I just ran it and it worked so I know now.

sorry about getting back late to edit the post.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] altltkrk:
Does this Unlock Network?

My phone is LG E617G It's Canadian phone which locked to Bell Mobility.

Does this ROM work on that model? and does it unlock the network(sim)?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
It does not unlock the SIM, however, you can get your SIM unlocked by using a service such as this: http://dollarunlock.com/lg-e617g-optimus-l5-unlock-code.html
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] francescus28:
Good :D:D

Inviato dal mio LG-E610 con Tapatalk 2
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] Myric:
Thank you, for this how to.

I've been searching everywhere for this info.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

I've installed CM and it seem to be working well, but there's a problem with the gapps install.

com.google.process.location

recherche google

picasa uplauder

google play store

All keep crashing on launch and do not work at all. SO I can't do any search on the phone and google play store isn't working at all.

Is this a know problem or did I do something wrong with the install?

Is there a way to fix this? I've tried to redoanload de gapps and do a factory restor but for now no changes.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
I can confirm that CM11 works perfectly on the e617g.

I installed:

CM11 Alpha 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?a4aayvst09rgsxp

Custom CWM 6.0.4.5 flashable zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?3jd45gpk4585325

Google hangout mic patch: http://www.mediafire.com/?hublcokxi6pblpv

KitKat Boot Animation: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2396078&d=1384631786

TeamLGHAX Kernel for e610: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/u03jzhor1zp16/TeamHackLG_Experimental
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] scheissegalo:
May the thread is a little old but anyways........ I successfully installed cm10.1 everything is working great. But booting keeps to be a challenge. Sometimes it is booting normal, but most of the time it spinns a little bit longer on the Cyanogen mod logo and after complete boot touch does not work. when the phone goes sleep mode and screen goes black i can't wake it anymore. the buttons are lighted but screen remains black after power button. when i press power button right after reboot screen goes black how it should be but doesn't wake up anymore :( So i have to reboot (sometimes up to 10 times) until it works. Is this fixable?

Sorry for noobing :D but i'm new in the android scene
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
i rooted my phone from a different post, will this mod still work? The rooting i followed was from

[ROOTING][L5,L7,L9]without flashing KDZ[easy/secure

i post the forum title because i cant post links yet, sorry. Please somebody help me, i just need to make sure that cm11 will work with the rooting i chose.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] giaki3003:
Yes rooting method doesn't differ on the SU installed;)

Flash like normal:D

Inviato dal mio LG-E400 con Tapatalk 2
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
I cant download the adb file though, something is up with that link, it makes you download a zipped mp3 file. If you choose the top download option, the site tries to install EzDownloader.

Thats odd but i downloaded the abd/fastboot file from a diff website.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] giaki3003:
If you were supposing the OP was trying to spam us(as you were ;)) well he's not. Dev-Host is a trusted site here in XDA.

Inviato dal mio LG-E400 con Tapatalk 2
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
oh well i dunno, i dont mean the op is doing that. i Just couldnt get the adb from there, unless its downloaded through the ezdownloader. Im just trying to get the recovery install to work now.

This is tough, coding is not my game.

The cwm wont work for me, Im not sure how folks are getting it to work. The op posted a different bootloader in the CWM topic.

maybe thats why?

I must be doing something wrong,

please somebody give me a pro tip. After inputting 9th step from cwm guide, cmd says

xxxxxxx. img: No such file or directory.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] giaki3003:
Check the directory in which you stored the .img

It may be somewhere else than where the adb expects it to be. Try putting it in the SDcard , and then running it.

Inviato dal mio LG-E400 con Tapatalk 2
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
thanks, yea i just tried a different bootloader and got it running this time. i got cwm installed now as well.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] NotoriousArts:
Tried to unlock bootloader

Hello, I've tried to unlock my bootloader, I've done this before, got bricked and reset everything. I was back on stock and everything. Once again, I tried to unlock bootloader but this time, I entered the command reboot as said in instructions, and the phone just shut off and now won't turn on. Won't even vibrate when I hold the power button. Please help me thank you. EDIT ps, when I plug it into the PC the PC detects it. I've tried removing battery and everything but it still won't turn on.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
for cm11, do you need all the zips listed for cm 10? like GAPPS, v20 BaseBand, and WakeWithHomeAndPower_signed.zip (Optional) and v10 Baseband ?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] BuffMcBigHuge:
You will need 4.4.4 PA gapps and v20 baseband.

Not sure what happened there. Do you see it in ADB?
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] teachill:
my phone is bricked aha at least i tried. The damn thing gave me status 7. This is after i did factory reset. But i backed everything up to external sd through CWM. i tried signature verification to install cm11, still no-go. I tried restore backup from external sd, for some reason, that didnt work, there was an error about android image or something meh.

Anyway tough luck for me, i followed all instructions from forums to the tea and i appreciate all the help i got. :good:

It was worth the risk, i know more about phones now :D

I had e617G canadian for very long, its still under contract to this very day, with no warranty support. Lousy corporations, i really liked the phone but i was trying to save it from the buggy glitching i kept getting after i sent it for support over a year ago. I swear i think a tech-guy bugged my phone over there, who knows. She was meant to die i guess.

How should i recylcle this thing anyway...hmm
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] NotoriousArts:
Sorry about late response. I used ADB to try and unlock bootloader. After the reboot command, my phone won't turn on. ADB does recognize it, but the phone won't turn on no matter what I tried.
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] sugoidango:
I followed every step, rooted, unlocked bootloader using adb with no errors, installed CWM with the tutorial you posted. Then when I got to the flashing part, flashing v20 Baseband was no problem, but when I flashed CM 10.1 it made my phone stuck on the cyanogenmod boot loop, still on loop as I post this. I don't know if something is incompatible or I did something wrong, for example when I flashed the baseband I rebooted, was I not supposed to do that? Was I supposed to flash everything then reboot?

My phone model is: LG E617G Canadian Version, Bell?

UPDATE: I got curious since this is my first time so I went back into CWM and flashed gapps, was that a bad move?

UPDATE2: Am I supposed to wipe all data and cache before flashing? Sorry, first time :C
[Optimus L3, L5, L7 General] sugoidango:
Resolved, thank you so much for this!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
After the problem with imei ,Now there's the problem with yellow text on screen..not working lockscreen no extendend menu on power button,it's shutdonw when I hold,I tried to go back on stock...not working..I try many code in SU...not work..i try many things but nothing work..I can fix this or is "forever" ?

this apears on samsung based roms.. :(

" su

rm /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

rm /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

echo -n ON >> /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

echo -n ON >> /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

chown 1000.1000 /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

chown 1000.1000 /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

chmod 0744 /efs/FactoryApp/keystr

chmod 0744 /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

reboot

"

and not working..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
From terminal emulator

su

echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
I tried..not working...yellow text keep apears...sorry for my english
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Run this

su

efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

...in terminal and show me screenshot
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jorgefcbastos:
I'm also with this problem on mine. A help from a more experienced user would be appreciated. Still have the wrong IMEI issue. Can someone help?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Please don't hijack this thread with a different issue

If you have a problem with your imei and you cant find an answer in one of the many imei threads created each day, post a thread with specific details of your issue... how you got there, firmware involved, what you've tried
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
Network -> yes

IMEI -> yes

Serial number -> yes

lockscreen -> no

after rom flash no "tour" (setup google account,setup name etc)

extended power menu -> no

yellow text on screen -> yes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Thanks. The screenshot you uploaded with the terminal shows what I would expect for a correct factorymode setting.

I take it you have no efs backup?

I think all you can do is wipe and return to stock to see if you can get it repaired. Maybe return to stock fixes it (although unlikely)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
I have some efs backup,I tried to wipe..to flash stock with odin..but it's same..

I tried flash with odin ->

I9300XXUFME3_I9300OJKFME1_HOME.tar

I9300BVALE4_I9300OROALE4_I9300BVLE4_HOME.tar

I9300XXEMD3_I9300OJVEMC1_I9300XXEMA5_HOME.tar

KIES_HOME_I9300XXEMG4_I9300OXAEMG4_1314436_REV00_user_low_ship.tar

I9300XXEMC2_I9300OXFEMC1_I9300XXEMC2_HOME.tar

but none worked....I don't have any ideas...how to fix..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
if restoring the backup also failed, all you can do is send it in I think. Or keep googling hoping someone else finds a fix. Sorry :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
I restored backup succesful but backup repair imei,serial number and network yellow text and lockscreen no..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Service centre next .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billa:
If after the command:

echo -n ON > /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode

you get this message:

can't create /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode No such file or directory

then your EFS is missing (got wiped out somehow), and it cannot be recreated by simply flashing a stock firmware or by factory reset.

I had the same problem, so I read the EFS partition from an identical working phone via

dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/efs of=/sdcard/efs.img.ext4

adb pull /sdcard/efs.img.ext4

TAR-ed it, then flashed it via Odin and now everything works fine.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rp158:
[MENTION=293193]billa[/MENTION] And how is life as someone other's clon?

[MENTION=3465810]cosmy032[/MENTION] You could restore your IMEI, right? What's your modem now?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billa:
The EFS no longer contains the imei, so you can safely write someone else's. If yours is corrupted that's a whole different thread.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmy032:
No..I buy a Nexus 5 and now i'm tinking it was a good choice:p
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeamsi97:
so my nexus 7 (original) was getting laggy so i tried reflashing the factory image. It wasn't working, so i downloaded the nexus root toolkit and tried flashing the stock ROM. It erases the boot, cache, system, etc, but it keeps getting stuck on the "sending bootloader" part. It just says:

sending 'bootloader' <2100 KB>...

what should i do? is it my computer? i really don't want a bricked nexus. please help...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] br1an:
Try flashing in boot loader

Type : flash fastboot boot boot.img

in C:\Andriod or path of the adb
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambistt:
no one help you - if you can not get access to fastboot - buy new nexus

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rirere:
The solution here is at least in part not to use the toolkit so you can see for yourself what is going wrong. Download the appropriate factory image for your device and the Android platform tools, and then you can use fastboot to flash the relevant images over.

The bigger question is what state your device is in. Are you able to kick the machine into fastboot mode still?

This is possibly one of the most useless posts I have yet seen here. We don't even know the status of the OP's device.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sambistt:
my post help him, your post just waste of time

- if him can`t access device via fastboot - how can it resolve command from it?

don`t bully this user - you cann`t help him - its not soft bricked !!!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darth:
Him no say him no can use fastboot. You assume too much and obviously have no clue what you're talking about.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rirere:
I'm not "bullying" anyone, I'm pointing out that your post is based off of nothing but conjecture right now. If OP killed even fastboot then yes, his options are limited, but your post is inviting an even larger waste of time based on inadequate information-- which is exactly how these problems occur.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeamsi97:
Solved :)

Thanks everyone. I got it to work. I should have mentioned that i did use flashboot initially but used the toolkit when it didn't work. In the end, I finally got fastboot to flash the image. Thanks again for replying.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
Hi,(I asked a similar question on the hawkish rom thread. But maybe someone here knows a solution)

I flashed hawkish rom, and made a nandroid backup, and backed up all my apps, but not the EFS partition.

After flashing, I can't see my network operator. I'm in germany, and I see

o2 - de, E-Plus, Vodafone.de, but I can't see telekom.de. Instead, the first line of the operators is empty - has no name.

*#06# showed as IMEI 0049999....

After much fussing with the EFS directory, I managed to get to a state where my IMEI shows up correctly with *#06#.

I also tried flashing various modems, but nothing helped.

When I click on the empty line among the operators, the phone does evenually register to that network, but nothing changes -still emergency only.

"About device" shows in Status: Network Telekom.de, signal strength -101dBm 5asu, Service state "Out of service"

What could be wrong? How can I fix things?

Thanks!!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
Turns out I have an efs backup

It seems I do have a backup of the efs folder as a tar.

What is the best way to restore it?

I tried mounting as r/w and just overwrite the folder, but that didn't seem to change anything - I still can't see the network operator

(the imei is correct, though...)

So, what's a good way to restore the efs?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shhbz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2389426 this will solve your prob on restoring if not then can try https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouR1NJSV9SZXBhaXIiXQ..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
Thank you! I already did things that superficially do exactly what is described in the thread, and no luck. I'll try again.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oZWxyb3ouR1NJSV9SZXBhaXIiXQ says that it is for GSII only - does it also work on

Note2?

What about http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918601 ? Does that work?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shhbz:
it wont work for you sorry for my previous reply try to see if the playstore version works and what about the nadroid backup u created does it restore

does flashing the XXDMG1 modem solves the prob
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
Not yet, but I think that might be my problem, as described here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43037352&postcount=134
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shhbz:
Thats what I asked you as if you have flashed the latest dmg1 modem as that would have solve your prob as on first post u mentioned that you already tried flashing different modem just search fr the modem its uploaded by a user ,as now on phn cant search even ketan thread has that modem uploaded just flash via mobile odin n see if it solves

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31986738&postcount=6 here is the modem others can work too but since hawkish rom u flashed was based on dmg1 so better try this dmg1
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostwheel:
I'll try. Could it have something to do with the fact that my Note 2 was 4.1.1 before I flashed? Is the format of efs different on 4.1.1 and on 4.1.2?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shhbz:
well there may be some change in file maybe few extra or less but that might be an issue as its not restoring the efs backup well try the modem thing and if rectified then don't ever go back to 4.1.1 . as the prob is with the modem so it should solve the problem u facing