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[Sprint LG G2] mtcellph:
Not sure how others are getting great battery life after the update. I am just running stock rooted without any tweaks or mods and my battery life seems worse than before. I don't have any way to test this however since I never really tested it on 4.2. 2 but maybe someone with more knowledge in this area can say if this is normal or not for this device on the new kitkat update.

During this time I have barely used the phone and did not play any games or watch videos or things that normally drain battery life and I have been on wifi the entire time so not sure why it would be draining like this if it is supposed to have such great battery life. Is this normal?

TIA,

MTCellph
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
poor signal is a battery hog
[Sprint LG G2] mtcellph:
That is probably it then, because I have terrible signal here and was offered an airwave free of charge which I think I will get to test it out and see if it helps the battery at all.

MTCellph
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
I have an Airave too, it helps big time.
[Sprint LG G2] Big Boy Laroux:
Maybe my xda app is acting up, but your images show 30 hours of battery time, down to 25%, with close to 3 hours of screen time... I'd say that's pretty darn amazing.

So either my app is messing up or you uploaded the wrong pictures. :)
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
Yep I got one too, I agree it helps.
[Sprint LG G2] Bocephus87:
4.4.2 has been working great for me. About same battery life as before, but enjoying the full-immersion screen now. Only gripe with it is the home screen buttons sometimes get stuck and dont slide away like they should. Anyone else see this?
[Sprint LG G2] mtcellph:
The images are correct, but I have seen others report battery life of ~48 hours with about the same amount of usage and it just felt like to me I could go almost 2 days on 4.2.2 and playing games, heavy texting, and using the internet from the same location that I am currently at now with the bad reception so while this may seem good for most phones it just does not seem to be as good as it used to be or as good as THIS phone should / can be imho.I will order the Airave and see it it improves those numbers any however and thanks for the reply.

MTCell
[Sprint LG G2] Big Boy Laroux:
30 hours is great. Your post made it sound like you're getting 8 hours or something similar. But if you were getting 2 days before, I can see your point.
[Sprint LG G2] jlaroche:
Success
[Sprint LG G2] gonk24:
Same here. I've flashed 2 different tot files without touching the date for the PC.
[Sprint LG G2] secret.animal:
That is fine, I haven't either on the last 2 times. I was informed for the crack to work. Maybe they got that fixed with the newer version
[Sprint LG G2] M3wThr33:
On rooted ZVA, stock recovery. Aside from normal-ish rooted behavior (AdAway, Busybox, Xposed), the only mod I made to /system was to delete Google Maps.

I've replaced the apk and odex files. Do I need to fix anything else? Are timestamps an issue? What's the easiest way to retrigger the update to install, to see if that fixed it?
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
I would skip the OTA if your having issues, just install ZVC using the LG Flash Tool.
[Sprint LG G2] M3wThr33:
Which I'm ready to do tonight when I get home. Just wanted to save myself the headache of reinstalling everything.

Oh well, you live and learn.
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
I used the LG backup app on the phone to save everything except pictures and videos which I saved via OTG flash drive there was just too much for the LG backup app to handle as a single backup. I also saved my contact file as well just in case. So I had the LGbackup file, Picture video folder and contacts file all on my usb drive. Loaded ZVC via tot and restored everything after, easy peasy...well I say that now but i was a little nervous at first.
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
Keep us posted on your success!...(see, I'm thinking positive).
[Sprint LG G2] M3wThr33:
Worked fine. Everything seems to be good. I made sure to use the "Use this DLL if you're having trouble" DLL. Restored everything I needed to with Titanium Backup. Snapshot oddly didn't work, but XML worked fine to restore call logs and text messages.

Seems a lot easier than trying to flash my Optimus 3D. That involves a lot more hackery, especially on Windows 8 because of driver signing issues.
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
are there any zvc compatible roms out there at the moment?
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
Not that I am aware of, however if you want to flash any custom ROMs, you need to downgrade the aboot first. Also when updating to new OTA you must undo that or you risk brick and non working download mode.
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
Thanks for the reply which aboot should I downgrade to? Also after downgrading it can I just flash a custom rom i.e. Mahdi 2.5 or Pacman 4.4.2 without the need to flash a kernel or should I then flash something like Furnace 2.0.1? Or are you just saying in general when zvc compatible roms come out that I'll need to downgrade aboot to use them?
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
You need to do that, because loki exploit was patched in ZVA, so you need to downgrade to ZV8 aboot for installation of custom recovery in the first place.

As for roms, you need to flash the radio based on which rom you are using. Cyanogen is still on ZV8 radio I believe.
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
Ohh ok I think I understand it now so radio=aboot? I thought it referred to something else. I used autorec to get custom recovery so

I believe it downgraded my aboot already so technically I can go and flash any of the custom roms available then?
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
Its the bootloader, just remember to undo that and restore stock recovery before an OTA otherwise even download mode will fail and it will be a chore just to get a .tot stock image flashed.
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
So the bootloader is the radio? I.e. zva, zvc, etc?
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
Yep, and radio is separate from aboot. Radio handles WiFi, Bluetooth and Cellular.

Read the instructions on bottom of first post, its for D3rp ROM but, I think you will understand from that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2594203
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
I get the part about returning to stock before an OTA but what I'm still not sure on is whether I'm good to flash a 4.2.2 based rom onto my phone and if so whether I'll need to install a kernel after flashing it. I did the autorec process so it should've downgraded my aboot but in the settings it still says zvc. So I'm not sure if you meant that aboot is the same as the radio.
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
I havent used autorec, here are the manual instructions just in case it wasn't downgraded.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51706924&postcount=50

bootloader=aboot=/=radio
[Sprint LG G2] OfficialPerson:
ok so in that case I should have a downgraded aboot though I'm not sure how to check it but I'm going to try and flash the 4.4.2 pacman rom (which I'm sure is based off of 4.2.2) since my radio is zvc I guess I'll flash the furnace 2.0 kernel since thats zvc compatible.

UPDATE: So I went and installed the 4.4.2 ls980 pacman rom, furnace 2.0 kernel, and gapps. I was able to boot up and whatnot but my bluetooth didn't work neither did the music player/dsp manager and video recording.

I don't know what else was broken but after seeing that I decided to just restore to zvc (luckily I already made a nandroid backup) so I just booted into recovery and restored from the backup. So I'm guessing its like I was told before the rom has to be zvc compatible. Well it was cool having vanilla android while it lasted lol.
[Sprint LG G2] ChoppedLiver:
I learned something helpful for OTAs failing to apply, like when the ZVC update goes in recovery and seemingly begins to apply (at least at first), but then reboots back to system and you're still on ZVA. Like some other folks this happened to me also, and it stumped me for a little while because of lack of clues until I found this.

The OTA install logs to /cache/recovery/last_log (I think this is a general Android thing, not specific to any particular update or device), where in my case I found the following:

script aborted: "/system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl" has unexpected contents.

Didn't think one remapped headset button would cause the OTA to fail, but it did.. I restored the original Generic.kl, and then the OTA installed without issue. It would be nice if a failed OTA would produce some user notification.

Note that you must have root privilege to access the last_log file; root ADB access is enough (so don't need full Android system root).

Hope this can help someone.
[Sprint LG G2] wcr84:
Guys i tested my screen for dead panels. I have ran a few test on screen and find no problems. Knock on just stopped working. Tot all the way back to zv7. Factory resets and everything. Only time it works is sometimes if you use your whole thumb print to knock on. Ive also cleaned real well and checked proximity sensor. Ive went thru the whole thing. Is this possibly a bug? Anyone else having issues
[Sprint LG G2] abhinav.tella:
Weird yet interesting problem, never happened to me but have heard some people getting it.

Try this:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g2/362850-screen-shutting-off-knockon-issue-fix.html
[Sprint LG G2] Robisgnarly:
yup just got this issue yesterday, tried all the same, and nothing..... it does work on rare occasion once but than nothing. called LG and they told me only way to fix this was to send it to them for it to be repaired, so im guessing there is probably a small piece of hardware that can be broken causing this
[Sprint LG G2] wcr84:
I thaught so to until i found that if you use your whole thumb print sometimes it works. Im waiting for knock code update. Of that doesnt work ill send it in.
[Sprint LG G2] RohanM:
I have updated to ZVC... There is no such issue...
[Sprint LG G2] iViking:
Want to install cusom recovery and firmware, but...

I don't want to lose ZVC radio functionality. Suggestions?

(Too much searching, too little time, you understand)

Here's what I have:

LS980 ZVC (Rooted via ioroot25)

Rom Manager Premium

ioroot25

LG Flash Tool and stock recovery to ZV8

Goal:

Flash CWM or Philz Touch as custom recovery

Flash CyanogenMod as custom firmware

Hurdles:

Bootloader locked, cannot flash custom recovery.

ZVC functionality desired. Hesitant to downgrade.
[Sprint LG G2] Art2Fly:
OK well ZVC is relatively new and I've had this phone for about a week now and have flashed and toted many times already just learning what we can do. To get cyanogenmod you're going to have to downgrade your modem to zva but first you need to ioroot to get supersu on your phone then you use autorec to get recovery installed.

Autorec doesn't work very well with our phones with kitkat... Autorec patches the kernel to let the recovery boot, but after you boot recovery and go back to ZVC, you will get a white screen because of the kernel. To remedy this you must have a bootstrap backup or just a backup of your og boot.img

Cyanogenmod however is based of zva which we do have source for and you can install a custom kernel, meaning twrp works after reboot because you don't have to flash the Virgin kernel every time.

So again

Ioroot

Transfer over cm11, gapps, and zva modem flashable zips to your internal storage

Autorec

Reboot into twrp

Wipe everything except internal storage in twrp and them flash zva modem, cm11, and gapps in that order....

Wish I had it that easy ;}
[Sprint LG G2] iViking:
Well, thanks for the information, but I ****ed up somewhere and bricked my phone. I'm currently downloading the ZVA Stock image to flash in Download Mode and unbrick my phone (I've done this several times before). This'll put me in a better situation to reroot and flash TWRP. Then I can use. From there, I'll Flash the modem, cm11, and gapps.

I found that the ZVC modem is also available. After doing all these steps, I can flash both philz touch and ZVC modem.

Do I have a plan in order or is there some problem with that?
[Sprint LG G2] mtcellph:
Has anyone noticed that mms over wifi has stopped working. I am rooted and was one of the lucky few that was able to use autorec without getting lines on my screen, however I lost the ability to send mms over wifi. Anyone else have this issue with kitkat?
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
I was unaware that it even did that?
[Sprint LG G2] Deejayadhd:
I have never been able to send or receive mms over wifi otherwise I would have tossed my airave in the garage years ago.

Sent from Omicron Persei 8
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
Thought I was missing out on something
[Sprint LG G2] iViking:
Following all the steps after a whole day of starting over. I began with stock rooted ZVC, and followed the instructions. The result is a boot-loop. Am I missing something? I wiped both caches on each of the 3 zip flashes. This is assuming I did not revert my boot.img I also didn't back it up. Should I have done that or could I use a boot.img from any of the stock partitions online? If so, which one? ZVC? ZVA? ZV8? Do I need to change the aboot to accomodate?
[Sprint LG G2] mtcellph:
You are both missing out as Sprint supports MMS over WIFI and have been using it for over 2yrs but the native SMS app on most phones does not have a setting for it but 3rd party SMS Apps like ChompSMS does have that setting and it does work, but since the 4.4.2 update it works in a different way then it did before. You used to be able to send MMS over WIFI if you had both DATA and WIFI enabled, but now you have to disable DATA for it to send over WIFI only.

This is a bug in the app because Textra (another app from the same devs) does work with both DATA and WIFI on, but it does not have some of the features I use so I did not test it until after I made my last post.

Anyway I submitted a bug report to the ChompSMS people so hopefully they will respond but as I said before Sprint supports MMS over WIFI and ChompSMS (if you want to disable data while sending an MMS) or Textra have the setting you need to enable to allow sending MMS over WIFI so it may be worth checking them out if you want to see for yourself if it works (it should)

The setting you need to look for in those apps is under > MMS Settings > Prefer WIFI if you want to test it out for yourselves.

MTCellph
[Sprint LG G2] Deejayadhd:
Huh that's awesome.. Didn't know it was possible. Just got textra and it works! Thanx for the tip.

Sent from Omicron Persei 8

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Well looks like I can send but not receive mms.. Bummer.

Nevermind it worked... Now people are telling me they are getting my messages twice. Dunno.

Sent from Omicron Persei 8
[Sprint LG G2] Art2Fly:
Forgot to add that you must flash a custom kernel as well for it to boot...
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
Wonder why the native messaging app doesn't support wifi
[Sprint LG G2] iViking:
Now you tell me. I've bricked my phone after downgrading the aboot. Recovery and Download mode does not open, and the hard factory reset does not seem to run when prompted. I like to access the phone at this state and reapply the previous aboot. Neither Adb nor fastboot is responding, and I don't know how to get either one to work on the phone's side.
[Sprint LG G2] jcwxguy:
if you cant get into download mode or fastboot mode, i hate to say it but then your screwed.
[Sprint LG G2] johnzm:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2582142

try that..
[Sprint LG G2] iViking:
No use. It won't read my device. I even took it to a reputable phone repair shop, and they won't work on it. I don't even know how to install the qualcomm hs-usb driver. I have no boot error either. I think it's a total loss. I'm forced to buy a replacement phone and try not to lose THAT for 2 years.
[Sprint LG G2] tbob18:
This phone is quite easy to brick (comparatively - at least to more popular devices) so you've gotta be very careful, a while back my EFS randomly got corrupted.

So far this method has worked well for me (in this order):

Take OTA to ZVC from 100% stock ZVA (No root, no recovery) - TOT to ZVC should produce the same results but I haven't done it that way

Set up IORoot25 - carefully follow instructions, then backup EFS twice with airplane mode on and make multiple copies - two on your PC and two on your phone at minimum just in case something goes wrong down the road.

Install AutoRec - follow the instructions

Boot into TWRP and make a complete backup (copy to your desktop for extra safety)

Install mods and make system changes as desired

If you get the white line/static issue (only happens with after screen cycle for me) follow these instructions and flash the BootStack (you will lose TWRP/Custom recovery)

If you need to install another mod or use TWRP just run autorec again and then flash the BootStack fix

Of course the downfall to this method is you can't restore your TWRP backup if you can't boot and have flashed the BootStack fix since you need to use AutoRec again.. You'll have to TOT back to stock ZVC and go through the process again.

Before I make any system changes:

Use AutoRec and reboot

Boot into TWRP and make a backup if I don't have a recent one

Make my changes or flash what is needed (making sure not to turn the screen off if in Android)

Reboot to make sure everything works properly

Boot into TWRP, and flash the BootStack fix again

A bit of a pain, but it seems to work well and is fairly fool proof.
[Sprint LG G2] jigarbond:
Hi guys,

So I received an OTA update to go from LS980ZVA to ZVC last night. I am currently running stock ZVA ROM which is rooted.

Now, my question is, is it safe to just "Restart and Install" this update? I have TWRP as the custom recovery, will this be an issue?

Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated. I just want to know if it is okay to just take the OTA update directly or do I need to do anything before I install this update?

Thank you!
[Sprint LG G2] secret.animal:
Don't do it. Brick.

This update checks everything. Long press the update notification. Click app data. Remove check on notifications.

Regular reboot any time or such will be fine. Clicking notification would start update process
[Sprint LG G2] ChoppedLiver:
Like secret.animal already said, you cannot apply the OTA in the current state.

The information is out there in these forums; there are several things you can do. What I personally did is return to stock nearly completely, then take the OTA. That includes restore stock recovery, stock aboot (which you must've downgraded to run TWRP on ZVA), and even unroot. If you have other modifications like Xposed or hotspot mod, frozen/uninstalled system or Sprint/carrier apps or any such thing, you will have to restore those back to stock as well. Only thing I'm aware of that won't break things is to keep a rooted ADB shell (not sure how to unroot that anyway).

Once you're on ZVC, you can root again with ioroot25 (though even there, a couple people have reported some issue where this effectively didn't work even though it seemed to).

There are also ways to have TWRP again after that, but there are issues and risks depending on what you do exactly, including loss of download mode (which could be your safety if something goes wrong), and a white lines across the device. I would do lots of reading, make sure you understand what you're getting into, before going down that road; I chose not to do it at this point, I'm running ZVC that is rooted only, with stock recovery. Read some recent posts right before yours.. Also include this thread in your reading (even if you take the stock OTA).
[Sprint LG G2] RohanM:
Clicking notification will not start ota....
[Sprint LG G2] tomc585:
Yes this warning was given some pages ago. Don't take the OTA unless your stock. Easiest and best way is to do the .tot via the LG flash tool, There is a thread for that which you may want to read through all the confusion some had but its very easy (I say that after the fact). And as many have learned....make a back up of your EFS files and store them safe somewhere.
[Sprint LG G2] dionieins:
Hey thanks for the useful information.

I just bought this phone from eBay and it came with the stock rom, without root or anything. When I went to About Phone, I saw that the software version is:

LS980ZVC

BUILD number: KOT49I.ls980zvc

So under this conditions I guess that I'm in the same situation you're: with the latest stock firmware. And you said that from this base the only recovery you've it's the stock one. Please let me know if you managed any way to flash cwm on the phone as I want to change the rom asap.

So far the only thing I've successfully done on the phone was to gain root access and not bricking it in the attempt.

I failed in trying to flash cwm on it and to sim unlock it :/

Please let me know your thoughts!

cheers and thanks in advance
[Sprint LG G2] Pat123:
Use IOROOT to root your phone, then use AutoRec to flash TWRP. You should be good to go.
[Sprint LG G2] RohanM:
But autorec will downgrade the bootlaoder also..
[Sprint LG G2] Pat123:
You need to downgrade it to be able to install custom ROMS. And Autorec makes it very easy.
[Sprint LG G2] ChoppedLiver:
Sure there are ways to get a custom recovery, but like I said there are risks and I have decided for now that I don't need a custom recovery enough to take the risk. That's my personal choice for the moment, but obviously plenty of people have installed custom recoveries with ZVC.

If I were to change my mind and install a custom recovery, I think I would prefer this method by autoprime, in part because it leaves download mode working. I think there is still risk to get the white line issue that way, but I understand there is a fix for that.

Like I said before, be sure to read up on this to the point you understand the consequences of what you're doing before attempting anything, because like tbob18 said a couple posts back, this phone is relatively easy to brick..
[Sprint LG G2] jr71x:
How did you gain root (exactly) cause i can't seem to get it. I have even installed sdk. Io25, lg drivers, adb drivers. Im on win8.1 when i adb it makes a noise on the pc so it has to be connecting. I don't get it. Ap mode, debugging, charge only. No go.
[Sprint LG G2] secret.animal:
I've done mine with ioroot25 no problem. Are you on zvc 4.4.2?
[Sprint LG G2] jr71x:
I certainly am...

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Maybe i need to use a mac? Lmao, no effin way...
[Sprint LG G2] ChoppedLiver:
What exactly happens? What messages are you getting on the phone and the computer?

By the way you should not need airplane mode for this.
[Sprint LG G2] RohanM:
Any one got ota for knock code? My friend with D802 model got it yesterday...
[Sprint LG G2] mistermidas:
Nope, i made a thread asking the same question. It hasn't been pushed by Sprint yet, and might be a while before it is.
[Sprint LG G2] RohanM:
ahhh, disadvantage of havig a carrier device.. lol
[Sprint LG G2] blindesti:
help

need help with LS980ZV7 update, can;t understand what rom i need to flash to dont brick this phone xD, i will apreciate any help
[Sprint LG G2] youngnex:
it's quite simple. Make sure you have USB Debugging on, Drivers installed. On Windows 8.1 dont run as administrator, just double click on it. That was what did the trick for me. Make sure u enable Developers Options.
[Sprint LG G2] blindesti:
well if i upgrade from JB to KitKat i won't have problems?