[Verizon LG G2] jonstrong:
Agree 100% - the manual OTA + Xposed is a perfect combination. When an official OTA comes in, there are a couple of considerations:

1) you do NOT want to ever accept an OTA with a custom recovery installed on your device. This is pretty much guaranteed to do some level of bricking to your phone -- possibility recoverable, but with quite a bit of angst and tooth gnashing. If you ever receive a true OTA update from your carrier, be sure you have the stock recovery in place before allowing the phone to attempt installing the OTA.

2) odds are that, if you install this "manual OTA" to 24A / KitKat, your phone won't pull down a KitKat OTA, as it will think your phone is already up to date. However that's not guaranteed, as we don't (at least I don't) know the details behind the logic for the OTA downloader to compare your currently installed OS versus what's being offered for download. Conceivable that, with 24A installed, you will not receive an offer for the official 24A OTA download. But it's also possible that you WILL receive the offer. But...as in point 3 below, beware:

3) OTA downloads are partial files -- not complete ROM replacements. They are constructed to patch the existing installation, and therefore it is crucial that the OS they are patching is precisely what they are expecting. If, for example, you have a customized ROM that has modded versions of system files or directories, applying a patch that assumes the stock versions of these files and directories could leave you with a broken Frankenstein experiment gone bad -- i.e., a bricked phone. OTA install scripts employ tests that include a variety of "asserts" (a predicate true/false statement about a believed state) in an attempt to be sure that the existing installed OS is, indeed, the one for which the OTA patch file was designed. Folks who have attempted to apply an OTA and see a "status 7" error are experiencing an assert failure in which the OTA patching script is effectively saying, "Hold on there! I can't apply this patch, because the target to be patched is not what I expected!". This is designed to help protect you from mangling your OS unintentionally. These asserts cover most cases, but unfortunately aren't perfect, so it is, indeed, still possible to brick your phone by flashing the wrong OTA update - sometimes. Reading, doing your homework -- and taking backups when you can -- are all very important.

4) If you want to be able to accept the official OTA when (if?) it becomes available, Your OS (aboot, boot, system) must all look like a pristeen unmodified copy of the official preceding version. For those of us on VzW, the vs980 should be on official JB - version 12b - before you accept the official OTA to KitKat - OS 24A. I'm not positive about the final verdict on this, but I've read reports noting that the OTA updater will refuse to apply the update if the phone is rooted, even if the rest of the system is unmodified. So -- if you want to experiment now, but take the OTA later, you should:

- restore to stock 12B (I think you can do this directly now; if not, you can go back to 11a, accept the OTA to 12B, and then the later OTA to 24A), and unroot your phone.

Final consideration: if you were to use either the "manual OTA" to 24A (arranged, documented and shared by [MENTION=2941286]xdabbeb[/MENTION] - thanks!) or one of the recent ROMS based on this (with a 12b aboot and customized 24A boot stack), you'd find the experience excellent, and likely have no reason to apply any "official" 24A that VzW may offer, as the code is likely the exact same. If and when a later release comes out (will we G2 owners, for example, actually be offered 5.0?), you would need to be fully stock 24A again before accepting an official 5.0 OTA -- but no doubt our wonderful dev community here will likely be spinning out 5.0 ROMs for the vs980 that you can flash on your phone at that time, getting the full experience - and then some - without worrying about any official VzW 5.0 OTA.

Everyone has to make their own choice, obviously. I'm finding the 24A / KitKat "manual OTA" to be fantastic, especially with Xposed framework, G2 Exposed and G2 Tweaksbox modules added in. Also, as much as I appreciate the stock LGHome launcher, I went back to Apex Pro -- wonderful in all respects, super fast and smooth, great options and about a gazillion themes and icon packs available.