[G Pad 8.3 General] Mixinitup4Christ:
How to Unlock, Root, Update, Install Custom Recovery, and ROM your LG G Pad 8.3 GPE (V510) ​

First off if you aren't already familiar with ADB and FASTBOOT, please take some time and read over this post (thanks [MENTION=5105831]ricky310711[/MENTION] ).

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Drivers

Windows 7 -- MTP Installs automatically, ADB Bridge requires Google USB Driver

Windows XP -- MTP needs LG Drivers, ADB Bridge requires Google USB Driver

LG United Mobile Driver (from G2) -- Will install drivers to access G-Pad as MTP device

Google USB Debug Driver

Installing ADB Drivers

Windows

Right click on the device with the triangle (Probably named "LG V510") in device manager

Choose "Update Driver"

Choose "Browse My Computer for driver software"

Locate where the Google USB drivers extracted with the "Browse" button

Choose "Next"

You computer should pick the drivers up and install

Linux (Thanks [MENTION=5623558]sleekmason[/MENTION] )

This guide assumes you are in root for the commands, and have a basic understanding of the terminal. Use sudo if you wish. Part of this comes from this guide: http://avedo.net/773/install-adb-and-fastboot-under-linux/ part from this guide: http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/75-debian/280-debian-wheezy-android-tools-adb-fastboot-qtadb and partly from this forum. I'm using i386 AntiX (debian pure), if you are using amd/64 bit you will need some dependencies:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

apt-get update ; apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

you will need to go into developer options to enable debugging on your device.

You will need to create the udev rules for your phone on your computer. use "lsusb" to find the manufactures code. it will show up as a nexus 4 device...interesting.

Create a folder /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules you can use gedit if you like:

gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

Put this inside and save, changing the manufactures code as neccesary, and changing "your-login" to your login name.

# Google Nexus devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", OWNER="your-login" # Google Nexus devices

## restart udev## #

service udev restart

I'm keeping this simple, so here we go! Use the above links as reference as neccesary.

1.

apt-get purge android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

##You shouldn't use adb from the repositories##

2. Down load the latest adb bundle from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

3.

unzip adt-bundle-linux-x86-20131030.zip

4.

mv adt-bundle-linux-x86-20131030 /opt/android-sdk-linux-x86-20131030

## (other google products reside here. Also, this takes a minute or so on slow machines)##

5.

ln -s /opt/android-sdk-linux-x86-20131030/sdk/platform-tools/adb /usr/bin

##(this links to /usr/bin to make life easy)##

6.

ln -s /opt/android-sdk-linux-x86-20131030/sdk/platform-tools/fastboot /usr/bin

##(same)##

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How-To

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How to sideload the 4.4.2 Update

This should be quite simple:

Download the 4.4.2 OTA (Stolen from: This Thread)

Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled in Developer Options

Connect the device to your computer and make sure the drivers are installed

adb devices

Command your device to reboot into the recovery

adb reboot recovery

When the recovery loads you will see a red exclamation point, press and hold the power button, press the Vol. Up button, release both buttons

Make sure your device is connected

adb devices

You should see a list;

-Reboot System

-Apply Update from ADB

wipte data/factory reset

-wipe cache partition​

Choose "Apply Update from ADB"

Sideload the Update ZIP

adb sideload a0bd45922b5958a38acef76f577f527268ef90db.signed-KRT16O.L004_user-KOT49H.L004_user_update.zip

You should get a progress indicator and Status when complete

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How to sideload the 4.4.4 Update

If you are running TWRP you can skip the steps below and simply restore this backup thanks to [MENTION=3721565]djkinetic[/MENTION]!

[MENTION=3209971]cam30era[/MENTION] reports problems sideloading this in the stock recovery, if you have problems try booting into TWRP to sideload the update:

Download the 4.4.4 OTA (Stolen from: This Thread)

Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled in Developer Options

Connect the device to your computer and make sure the drivers are installed

adb devices

Command your device to reboot into the recovery

adb reboot recovery

When the recovery loads you will see a red exclamation point, press and hold the power button, press the Vol. Up button, release both buttons

Make sure your device is connected

adb devices

You should see a list;

-Reboot System

-Apply Update from ADB

wipte data/factory reset

-wipe cache partition​

Choose "Apply Update from ADB"

Sideload the Update ZIP

adb sideload ff3c360e108c52aac952f10c3dd4c6c5ce66a3ce.signed-KOT49H.L004_user-KTU84P.L002_user_update.zip

You should get a progress indicator and Status when complete

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How to Unlock Your Bootloader

(Note for Linux users: fastboot commands must be issued using sudo. Thanks: [MENTION=3729259]akshunj[/MENTION] )​

Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled in Developer Options

Connect the device to your computer and make sure the drivers are installed

adb devices

Command your device to reboot into the bootloader

adb reboot bootloader

Make sure your device is connected

fastboot devices

Command your device to unlock the bootloader

fastboot oem unlock

IMPORTANT:You

WILL

softbrick your device if you don't allow the device to fully reboot before flashing a custom recovery

If you didn't pay attention and loaded custom recovery before a full reboot:

Download the Stock Recovery(Thanks [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION])

Make sure your device is connected

adb devices

Reboot into the bootloader

adb reboot bootloader

Make sure your device is connected

fastboot devices

Boot the stock recovery live

fastboot boot C:\android\17-recovery.img

Let the stock recovery do its thing and then reboot

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How to root the Stock ROM (Maintaining Stock Recovery for OTAs)

(Note for Linux users: fastboot commands must be issued using sudo. Thanks: [MENTION=3729259]akshunj[/MENTION] )​

Unlock the Bootloader

Reboot

Download the SuperSU ZIP from Chainfire to your SDCard

Connect the device to your computer and make sure the drivers are installed

adb devices

Reboot into the bootloader

adb reboot bootloader

Make sure your device is connected

fastboot devices

Boot a Custom Recovery live (TWRP; no cwm yet)

fastboot boot PALMAN.img

Press Install

Select the SuperSU ZIP file

Swipe to Confirm Flash

Reboot System

Have Fun!

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How to Install Custom Recovery

IMPORTANT:You

WILL

softbrick your device if you don't allow the device to fully reboot after unlocking the bootloader.

(Note for Linux users: fastboot commands must be issued using sudo. Thanks: [MENTION=3729259]akshunj[/MENTION] )​

Download a custom recovery (TWRP; no CWM yet)

Unlock the Bootloader

Reboot

Connect the device to your computer and make sure the drivers are installed

adb devices

Reboot into the bootloader

adb reboot bootloader

Make sure your device is connected

fastboot devices

Flash the custom recovery of your choice

(Note: Some people have had issues flashing the recovery with the file named "PALMAN.img" if you have a problem rename it to "recovery.img") ​

fastboot flash recovery PALMAN.img

Reboot

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Roll Your Own Kernel... BY [MENTION=5623558]sleekmason[/MENTION]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2628951

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General Info

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LG G Pad 8.3 GPE Partitions

Per the KRT160 stock firmware released by [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION]

0 - PrimaryGPT

1 - Modem

2 - sbl1

3 - sbl2

4 - sbl3

5 - rpm

6 - tz

7 - aboot

8 - sbl1b

9 - sbl2b

10 - sbl3b

11 - rpmb

12 - tzb

13 - abootb

14 - imgdata

15 - persist

16 - boot

17 - recovery

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LG G Pad 8.3 GPE OTAs

KOT49H from KRT16O - http://android.clients.google.com/pa...ser_update.zip (thanks [MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION] and [MENTION=921457]munchy_cool[/MENTION])

I don't believe there are any custom ROMs available for the V510 yet, I'll keep adding things to this as they come up! This is my first guide, so if you have suggestions please feel free to message me!

THANKS TO:

[MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] (for the stock partition images)

[MENTION=912474]Dees_Troy[/MENTION] and TWRP for the custom recovery

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] for SuperSU

[MENTION=5105831]ricky310711[/MENTION] for the great post on ADB and FASTBOOT

[MENTION=5623558]sleekmason[/MENTION] for teaching us how to roll our own kernel

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