yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Pad 8.3 General] vithorleal:
I see... I think that's exactly what I'm gonna do. If by July there are any rumors of a next gen tablet with this price (that part is important, I'm not willing to pay much more than that, because I don't want the BEST tablet out there, just one that satisfies my needs and the G Pad currently does). Hell, maybe I'll wait till the end of the year (since the releases take some time to get here). But thanks for the information! It made me think about my options. :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] Subtleone:
Import taxes have nothing to do with it, the Mini 2 is almost the double the price everywhere. The import taxes just mean that everything in Brazil is nearly double the price they cost in the US. An iPad Mini 2 that costs US$350 in the US costs US$650-700 in Brazil, etc.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
If anyone would like to purchase my G Pad GPE then hit me up in PM. It is in brand new condition and comes with this case HERE
[G Pad 8.3 General] EdenGottlieb:
So you could buy the LG version and convert it to gpe again? :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] Poke_N_PDA:
well, I guess this ain't happening. Not bashing the effort by any means, I'm just disappointed it wasn't meant to be. Looks like I'll purchasing the upcoming Nexus 8.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
There is no point in trying to convert. The small hardware/driver differences is hindering the conversion.

As soon as I have some free time I'll bring CM over to the GPE G Pad.
[G Pad 8.3 General] bmxje:
Any chance a skilled developer that's in for a challenge is going to look in to this?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn LG-V500 met Tapatalk
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
No
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay Rock:
Am I the only one who wants to turn their V510 into a V500 to use LG features?
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
You would probably be better off in the long run to sell your V510 on swappa.com, and buying a used V500. You'll pocket about $75 in the deal.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay Rock:
I might have to do that. It's time for me to ship my first product instead of having to sell locally on Craigslist lol.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Demetris:
Find attached some qcomm bootloader tools i was able to gather from moto threads.

I found null time yet to play with them but i will say it as clear as i can

These are strictly for advance usage and not for the casual tweaker.

So after the regular warnings, enjoy :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] worldspy99:
If you still have the GPE LG GPad, I am interested in purchasing it:)
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay Rock:
Yeah I still have it.
[G Pad 8.3 General] worldspy99:
LG Gpad

Do you want to do a deal on it...Please send PM.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Pixore:
Is it stable?

Wifi is working ?
[G Pad 8.3 General] Pixore:
please...
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
This ROM is not useable on the V500. Numerous issues (including WiFi) were not able to be resolved.
[G Pad 8.3 General] viskonde:
Bah received my v500 today, coming from a nexus 5 this is so laggy and full of crap I can't even use it.. I thought would be easy to convert it to a v510 but apparently not.. Well custom ROM it will be :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] Sumanji:
Install a custom launcher like Nova, and disable all the LG **** - it is amazing if you do this :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] viskonde:
yeah, yesterday when I posted was still with the jelly bean version

after the kitkat update, and by changing it to ART rt it become lot better

plus google launcher even more :)

yeah i already desactivated almost all the LGcrap, but some are just impossible to disable (at least without root..)

anyway, really like how the tablet look and feels in my hand :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] FrutasX:
Where can I get google launcher?

LG G Pad with TapTalk Pro
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
Play Store
[G Pad 8.3 General] FrutasX:
I didn't find it!!!

LG G Pad with TapTalk Pro
[G Pad 8.3 General] vicmavr:
The moment that original G pad is turned into GPE G pad I am going to buy it!
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
I am getting my G Pad later today. Did anyone post a dump from the GPE version? If so it should flash without too many issues on the non GPE version.

EDIT...

Does the zip file contain the KDZ file? Did you trying putting the partitions together so you can get a clean ROM dump?
[G Pad 8.3 General] NJ_RAMS_FAN:
Why not buying it now? Its on sale at best buy. I did got it from there and been using it with lg ROM. Its really nice. Can't wait for a dev to port gpe ROM to it.
[G Pad 8.3 General] vicmavr:
I just want to be sure.. Anyway I don't think it's going to be more than a few days
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay0r:
I don't think its a big deal... Because with every other device which appeared in the past as a GP-Edition it was very easy to convert it. (see Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC one)

Send from my Nexus 5
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
yeah i can't find a new enough version of the flash tool but if we found a KDZ file we could use the R&D tool to flash it
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
i did an extract tool dump, so i am currently extracting a boot.img system.img and everything else in there (there is a bunch) if it will help i can zip that and upload it
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
I'm using the old kitchen to break apart the system.img as we speak, this is a good day

edit, I have to go to work soon so i likely won't get to upload this before then, however when I do 2 things will be coming assuming i can find a file host for something as big.

1. complete set of img from the tot extraction

2. Flashable stock rom for GPE edition this would need to be loki patched and ported to the V500 but progress is progress
[G Pad 8.3 General] jmill75:
Just waiting for the thumbs up to head to Best Buy and pick one up. :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
short answer is i couldn't get it to flash and become it, that being said with us having loki for bootloader by pass and me being able to get this rom put together except for the porting it's probably a good time to get one, also the sale only goes till today and you can return it till january 15th, so why not?
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319195958

Partitions zip (this is a zip file with all the partition images from the gpe tot)

This is untested, and would need to be ported to our tab (ie loki and set up for v500) but here is a stock flashable zip for the play edition

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319195959

Also AFH doesn't have a section for the gpad that is why they are uploaded in the G2 section
[G Pad 8.3 General] naruto.ninjakid:
I like to keep my options open. I usually don't go for nexus devices because I like to test various manufacturers skin. Say touch wiz on my note 2 when I get bored or tired of it I flash an aosp Rom . Plus manufacturers always have a few really good features you don't want to go without. In the case of my note 2 it's spen capabilities. In having both This gives me the best if both world's. I'll definitely buy the v500 and test out LG's interface. If I get bored and don't like it flash I will just flash an aosp rom. I like to have choices. But to each his own I guess.

I would also buy it now while it's on sale
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay0r:
Has anybody tested this? My gosh why is this forum here for the GPad so lame and so much lack of information ?

Send from my Nexus 5
[G Pad 8.3 General] Sean09:
Why don't you test it instead of whining and asking someone else to do it? We aren't here for your amusement.
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
because it needs to be patched mostly
[G Pad 8.3 General] Sean09:
Well he shouldn't be complaining especially since he isn't contributing anything. He acts like he is entitled to have us do testing and experimenting for him! He should just be thankful for the dev support we're starting to get on our device and have patience.
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
partitions for boot flashed (aboot, sbl1, sbl2, sbl3) the problems from there is the device doesn't reboot i can still get into download mode though which is good news but there doesn't even appear to be a recovery right now

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[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Actually looks like it ran out of space flashing the aboot to partition

ALSO the output mentioned something about it being locked
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Thanks for the files. Going to play with it when I get back home. We may need a custom kernel to get the GPE ROM to flash on normal G Pad.
[G Pad 8.3 General] sionyboy:
Quick question, as I'm unsure how these things worked on the S4/HTC GPE devices; if you are able to flash the GPE ROM to the device, will that then fool the Google update servers that you have a GPE device and get the OTAs direct from Google?
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
Play Store: Google Now Launcher. It is there.
[G Pad 8.3 General] FrutasX:
Says it's not compatible with your equipment. I have v500!

LG G Pad with TapTalk Pro
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
Yup. I wouldn't have pointed you there if you would have mentioned that in your first post.
[G Pad 8.3 General] FrutasX:
Sorry!!! My mistake!

LG G Pad with TapTalk Pro
[G Pad 8.3 General] monomojao:
OK so 59 pages and NOTHING??? Maybe the OP should edit his first post so people wont waste their time reading this.
[G Pad 8.3 General] EdenGottlieb:
LOL you read all of this? Sorry for you, should've looked at the last posts.

BTW, I also read it all, but throuoghout the last monthes when it was active
[G Pad 8.3 General] monomojao:
lol i know man it took me 2 hours...

I was watching a movie as well.. Grand Budapest hotel.. dope! check it out
[G Pad 8.3 General] cam30era:
Google Play Launcher has been updated. Should work with your device now. Available in the Play store.
[G Pad 8.3 General] FrutasX:
Thanks.... But I loose my head and install cm11 and already have it... Incredible smooth and fast.

But thanks anyway.

Enviado do meu LG-V500 através de Tapatalk
[G Pad 8.3 General] Psimo_de:
Hi Demmetris,

I understand that this kernel is only the stock kernel for V500 with a many improvements?

I look to a kernel for V510 what sopport the undervolting. I had very good expierents with the AIC kernel from V500.

Could I flash this on my V500? No I think not.

Culod you any kernal for v510 with undervolting recommended?

thanks for all tips anmd hints in this thema.

Kinds

Psimo_de
[G Pad 8.3 General] galaxys:
Have a try of Sleekmason kernel, its the best for the V510:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2647119
[G Pad 8.3 General] sergiojorgino:
LG G pad 8.3 moden 3g via cabo OTG

I have the G pad tablet lg 8.3, I would use it with 3g modem cable OTG, someone already did. Viatinamita has a forum that demonstrates a young man using. Could someone confirm if it is possible.
[G Pad 8.3 General] fefifofum:
After a long read, I've come to a conclusion: nobody installed the complete v510 bootloader into the v500. [MENTION=4218641]AndroidUser00110001[/MENTION] bricked his device because he flashed an incomplete bootloader, and not all the required files. From my experience in this thread, it's clear that the bootloader requires 6 partitions to be flashed: sbl1, sbl2, sbl3, rpm, tz and aboot. So I made a flashable zip in case someone is willing to test it.

Note that this is untested, and it could brick your device, but it could also lead to a fully unlocked bootloader.

EDIT: Link removed. It seems it doesn't work.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Naulels:
Can i flash for v500

Gửi từ LG-V500 của tôi bằng cách sử dụng Tapatalk
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Would you list what you have tested so far. When you got to the point with no recovery did you try to flash a custom recovery?
[G Pad 8.3 General] Ice-Cream:
There might be minor hardware differences, does anyone know if that is the case?
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Used the commands in the first post to flash

Aboot

Sbl 1

Sbl 2

Sbl 3

Then rebooted, and as far getting into custom recovery I had no ability none of the 3 button combos worked, I can get into download, but I have no adb and can't boot to a rom to get to shell again, only thing I have is download mode

Edit also I never flashed back to stock via download mode ether because I had to go to work so I am just getting it swapped
[G Pad 8.3 General] McGyver dei poveri:
It's the same, just software differences
[G Pad 8.3 General] mustbepbs:
This is what I posted earlier. Don't know if anyone saw it.

Since this was already done on an LG device, wouldn't it make sense that what worked for the Optimus G would maybe work for us?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2099784
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Does fastboot work? You can use fastboot to flash recovery image too.
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Didn't try but if if I couldn't get to any sort of bootloader I'm not sure how fastboot would work
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
I thought in one of your post you said you were in fastboot.
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
No just download mode
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
I got GPE ROM booted on V500 but I am stuck at WiFi setup screen. Debugging and should have this sucker running soon.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Momar99:
Awesome! Can't wait, thank you.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Would anyone happen to have a clean dump of the GPE system folder? I am not sure where the dump I am working with came from and I want to make sure I have a clean dump and all files are included.

---------- Post added at 06:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

Got it booted but no WiFi. Trying to fix

---------- Post added at 06:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:26 PM ----------

Got it booted but no WiFi. Trying to fix
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
that dump was extracted from the .tot file in the OP, then I used the kitchen to decompile the system.img from the tot
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
OK Cool...Just wanted to make sure all the files are there. I am stumped to why wifi is not working. Everything else seems to be. I am going to post ROM up soon. If WiFi not working maybe someone can help me out...
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Is it possible that the wifi driver is looking for palman instead of awifi
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
IDK...would make this much easier if one could push files to device while in recovery...
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Yeah i get you
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Can you dump the system.img again please and post it somewhere that I can download? What tool did you use to extract img?
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
Yeah i can do that
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay0r:
You two guys are awesome *thumbs up* :)

Send from my Nexus 5
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Thanks. I got it booting but no wifi or bt. Will try tomorrow. Already wasted more hours than I wanted too on it :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
fresh system dump

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319196335

and to extract it I used EXT2EXPLORE from the kitchen because it was the one compatible with EXT4
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Thanks!

Edit..

Alpha GPE for V500 posted HERE
[G Pad 8.3 General] Maelstr0m:
guys you're great!

Inviato dal mio LG-V500 con Tapatalk 4
[G Pad 8.3 General] djkinetic:
Has anyone with a GPE gotten the OTA for 4.4.2, mine refuses to see that there is an update available...if so please post the zip OTA, or the direct link from google, run this command to get a link: adb shell dumpsys dropbox --print event_log | grep android.clients.google.com
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
Awesome! Couldn't you just take the drivers from cm11 for the wifi and blue tooth?
[G Pad 8.3 General] paulobrien:
Also no WiFi or BT here, stock GPe system and stock(ish) GPe boot image.

P
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Did you build stockish kernel from source?
[G Pad 8.3 General] paulobrien:
No, i'm using the kernel from the GPe boot image.

P
[G Pad 8.3 General] haasgo:
Is paul obrien working on the lg g pad 8.3?! Awesome! :thumbup:
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Anyone happen to have the stock boot.img from non GPE device?
[G Pad 8.3 General] kalagas:
Will the boot.emmc.win work for you? It's from my TWRP backup...

Sent using Mixed Theme from omegadroid.co
[G Pad 8.3 General] ekterion:
Thanks guys for supporting our G Pad, you are doing great job. If you tell me how i can extract what you need from my G Pad V500 (LG stock 4.2), I can help you.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Yes it did...thought of it after I posted :)

Thanks anyways.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
I tried flashing the TOT file and got an error stating that was only for online use so I guess flashing TOT for now will not work.

I can not figure out the WiFi and BT issues on port...

Spent too many hours on this already...lol
[G Pad 8.3 General] Poke_N_PDA:
you guys are awesome!!! keep it up! just got my v500 in and can't wait to ditch this and get the v510 firmware going.

just for clarification, the goal is to get the full software set from the v510 on here right? by this I mean boot loader, recovery, and everything to make it software identical.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Jay0r:
Its just a matter of time till somebody is able to convert a V500 to a Full V510.... There aren't any hardware differences so why shouldn't it be possible to convert?

Send from my Nexus 5
[G Pad 8.3 General] SnowPluralism:
Theres one major difference despite loki we still own an locked bootloader :) wich difficults things a bit :)

Enviado do meu GT-I9300 através de Tapatalk
[G Pad 8.3 General] fyre31:
if we ever get v510 fully working on v500, would it be OTA updateable?

the s4 intl and s4 gpe doesn't have any major hardware differences either but despite having fully working gpe rom on intl (on 4.3, 4.4 has some random reboots) OTA doesn't work
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
If you were to flash everything, bootloader, OS and kernel it should register as a 510 on their systems... but they still would need to be able to do that. It would be sweet, but I'd settle for a rom, that way we can modify it. If we can create a process to port over every update then a dev can just keep his rom up to date with each update and we can have the best of both worlds.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Poke_N_PDA:
The plus side to getting everything with the boot loader is that it simplifies the whole future process. Easy to unlock the boot loader, easy to flash recovery, easy everything.

Then, we can still use roms if we so wish.
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
Yeah 8t would be great to get the Google edition bootloader, I just hope there's a way to do it, it is usually a very complicated process
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
I modified the OTA update and was able to install it on my GPE ROM. Hopefully WiFi works and we can get a fully functional GPE ROM on V500. Apps are updating now...
[G Pad 8.3 General] atatek:
v510 on v500

What was the main problem? How is it going?

I just got the pad and I'm really excited about the progress.

I'd love to use GPE on my v500. I'm not in the Google Play device-enabled zone.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
WiFi and Bluetooth not working
[G Pad 8.3 General] atatek:
So you've succeeded changing the bootloader successfully?

Nice.

Any exceptions from logcat?
[G Pad 8.3 General] Reckoning:
insert profanity laced tirade here ↙
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
No I just fried my G Pad. Won't even turn on now!!!

Flashed the GPE aboot and sbl* images and tablet will not turn on or go to download mode. ****!!! LOL
[G Pad 8.3 General] Reckoning:
Is it brokeded?
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
That sucks! Keep us posted on what you do next
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
It broke...

Lots of cursing #$@!#*&$#@*$&(*@!(!@&(_@^&#$&@#*&#$
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
see if they will take it back or maybe LG will fix? The hardware is fine so there has to be a way to force flash
[G Pad 8.3 General] atatek:
Back when I was playing around with a Galaxy S i9000 device, there was a JTAG for boot, even when you can't reach fastboot nor recovery (so called brick).
[G Pad 8.3 General] Reckoning:
Repeat after me..."I was on Facebook and it just quit working, I'd like a refund please."
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
"It just won't turn on " also works well, mostly because there isn't a easy way to diagnose it
[G Pad 8.3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
No he wants a replacement (we need his work ;))

agreed, they usually check for water damage and send a replacement
[G Pad 8.3 General] Poke_N_PDA:
Can you use Odin with these g pads? It would of course require the full up build which I don't know if lg releases.

I guess you would still need to get to the boot loader which it sounds like isn't happening.
[G Pad 8.3 General] jmill75:
ODIN is for Samsung devices....
[G Pad 8.3 General] djkinetic:
Lol I could have told u a bad aboot.img would brick u, its the same on the G2...bad aboot = no download mode...have u tried connecting the tab to pc while trying to power on...it could be the tab is getting kicked into qusb bulk mode which would have no display on the device if its the same as the G2...in which case hop on irc and check with IOmonster it might still be recoverable.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Poke_N_PDA:
I had thought that for some time. Then I thought I saw it used with a different phone at some point and that made me change my mind. Oh well, I'm probably just mistaken.
[G Pad 8.3 General] autoprime:
I thought [MENTION=1373751]thoughtlesskyle[/MENTION] flashed aboot, sbl1, sbl2 and sbl3 and was still able to get into download mode?

so what is different this time? after his post I was hopeful that the boot stack was compatible between devices... now you're update makes me question that :confused:
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
No display on screen and goes right into qusb. What irc channel?
[G Pad 8.3 General] thoughtlesskyle:
I also got an out of space error on that partition and a locked message, I think he flashed the 4.4.2 one though
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
All the partitions can be flashed through recovery, for example

package_extract_file("bootloader.sbl2.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/sbl2");

package_extract_file("bootloader.sbl3.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/sbl3");

package_extract_file("bootloader.tz.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/tz");

package_extract_file("bootloader.rpm.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/rpm");

package_extract_file("bootloader.aboot.img", "/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot");

That's why I did not get a locked message and why my tab is bricked. I was a knucklehead and only flashed those partitions when I should have tried to flash all the partitions in the download folder.

I wonder if I flashed all the partitions if my device would have booted.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Sensamic:
So now who's next?? :D:D

I want to see now all those funny people recommending new guys to buy the V500 because there was going to be a Google rom soon...
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
There is a GPE ROM...just that wifi and bt do not work yet ;)
[G Pad 8.3 General] cbb77:
I would not actually take this as indication that it can't be done. I am highly confident that these guys will crack it and make it work on the V500. Actually kudos to AndroidUser00110001 for making such great progress in the short time that the GPE has been out. I'm no developer, but the guys here on XDA have done some incredible things. I've had multiple tablets and each time there has been multiple ROMS available. I think it's only a matter of time before this is cracked. Again kudos to AndroidUser00110001 for what he has done so far alone.
[G Pad 8.3 General] AndroidUser00110001:
Thanks but I really haven't done much but brick my G Pad ;)

Getting the GPE ROM up and running was no big deal. Just a couple of mods and it was ready to flash. Been a pain in ass though getting wifi and bt work though.

There still might be a way to get the v500 converted to GPE device...maybe I brick another device ;)
[G Pad 8.3 General] cbb77:
Well its more than I could have done. ;)

Hope you have luck unbricking your pad.