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[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruibing:
The filename is Mahdi-Hammerhead-exp-4.4.2-v1.7-23-03-2014.zip, but I thought that just meant it was somehow derived from the Nexus 5. Don't know why it would be posted in the Mahdi rom OP if it didn't have a chance of working.
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5373808:
To make myself clear.I said that nexus 5 thing, because the file of the kernel says hammerhead..But everything is fine..I use the rom as it is....I want to thank the dev for this amazing rom..A big thank you to all the devs..All of them have put a lot of work to their projects..I just made a question about this kernel.nothing else..Thanks for the reply.. :)
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleekmason:
Mahdi has a good reputation for being dependable. Glad you found something you like!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aikoyamamato:
Alright yes, I browsed through the forums before posting and yes I have read that you cannot root 13.3.2.1. However, I just bought my new Kindle, made sure it didn't update and it came with version 13.3.2.0. Is it possible to root this? I tried using the root in the developer forums but, as I expected before I tried anyway, it was for 13.3.1.0

Google sucks at searching version numbers and I only found some Chinese sites. I realize this will be an annoying, probably-answered-somewhere-that-I-couldn't-find question but is it possible to root 13.3.2.0?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mineturtle33:
No

Sent from my KFSOWI Running The Kindle-Water Beta-2 ROM
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] iMJets:
at the moment it is not possible.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] strazzere:
D:
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shabbypenguin:
have a good time last night? :)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aikoyamamato:
Darn, looks like I got mine too late. All I wanted was Google Play. Oh well, it's a fantastic device and I'm sure the fantastic people working on it will figure a way to get root access back. Got my donation money ready. :)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Faznx92:
Different memory address for one and vulnerability was patched.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Mineturtle33:
Actually, pretty much no work is being done for HDX at all. I try to help people in the HDX forum, but I only develop for its little brother, The 2nd Gen HD

Sent from my KFSOWI Running The Kindle-Water Beta-2 ROM
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] iMJets:
Its sad but true, I do remember a time when the regular HD had nothing going on as well so we can always be patient.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] velvetmode:
Hello guys, so i sold my AT&T Galaxy S4 to a friend an move up to Note 3.

After a couple of weeks he downloaded an app from Playstore and got into a Bootloop. I tol;d him i could help him as I have come through the same procedure again in the past.

I tried flashing the same rom the phone had by that time "I337UCUFMLD_OneClick" and i Got a FAIL.

Soon i realized the phone was bricked. I have been searhing for 5-6 hours today, tried to flash "ALL_ATT_I337UCUFNB1_I337ATTFNB1_505595_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar", all MK2 roms I Found here, and the only once which worked was flashing the "pit" file and flashing "I337_NC1_Stock_Recovery.tar". Now The phone has access to both Download & recovery mode but

i 'cant enable usb debugging cause i can't access the system.

If anyone has a clue, please help!

PS: Sry for the long description, can't post links.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] dave5777:
You should be able to flash the all in one nb1 tar use Odin 3 v1.85 make sure you extract the rar and load the tar in the pda slot. Unless it's been updated to nc1 then you'll have to wait and hope someone releases a all in one for that.

Sent from my SGH-I337. And no we can't flash Aosp based ROMs with a locked bootloader!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] velvetmode:
Thanks for the quick responce!

Nope, i flashed only the stock recovery from NC1 cause it was the only one i could find
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] dave5777:
Att recently pushed the nc1 firmware if your friend unknowingly applied the nc1 update and it flashed a new bootloader then that would make the nb1 Odin fail. I think your best bet is going to the Samsung Rep at your local Best buy and they can flash the factory image.

Sent from my SGH-I337. And no we can't flash Aosp based ROMs with a locked bootloader!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] velvetmode:
Thanks for the advice, we were about to after the weekend.

PS: I tried flashing using 1.85 ... reaches 90% of SYSTEM and fails...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
It has been reported that the NC1 update did not incriment the Q-fuse count in aboot. If this is true, it should be safe to Odin NB1 back onto a phone that took the NC1 update without it causing failure..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] velvetmode:
Solution

After several tries i managed to flash it back to STOCK NB1 with no problem.

The only Problem some people may have is that if you try flashing with odin 3+ and then try 1.85, you will fail due to Windows instabilitty.

I recommend taking battary of the phone for 1 hour (may sound too much but worked for me) restart PC, and try flashing right away after your computer boots up!

I will propably make a guide out of this cause that brick was tricky as hell.

Thanks everyone for replying :)

PROBLEM SOLVED :good:
[G Pad 8.3 General] Chance77:
Wheres the roms? This thing is finally rooted with recovery, are there any known working roms?
[G Pad 8.3 General] edgemaster191:
Give it time, grasshopper. These things take time. There are just enough differences between the 500/501 and 810 and the dev's need time to mod the kernel, build and find testers.

Also, as far as I know, we don't have source for the VK810 yet so that may slow things down a bit.

Believe me, i'm also waiting on an AOSP / GPE experience to make this thing perfect. :)
[G Pad 8.3 General] ibawanzingee:
LG already released source. https://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensourceList?types=ALL&search=vk810
[G Pad 8.3 General] prana22:
I wish I shared your optimism. I hope I'm wrong but it isn't looking good. The only reason we got TWRP support is because someone that has the other device helped with the 810. There seems to be next to no momentum on the 810 side. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of developers who have that device.
[G Pad 8.3 General] popezaphod:
I would do something but I have never even compiled CM11 let alone tweaked it to work with a new device. I can work with a developer who doesn't have one, but I don't know enough to do it on my own.
[G Pad 8.3 General] prana22:
That is where I am as well. I know just enough to get myself in trouble.
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
anyone care to share a system dump of the VK810?

boot.img and system partition would be useful

my local verizon store refuses to sell it to me without a contract............ sigh

probably going to get it from amazon
[G Pad 8.3 General] popezaphod:
Sure, how do I do that? <-- I am a noob
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2450045

info about the various partitions,good reading: http://www.all-things-android.com/content/review-android-partition-layout

if you have the custom recovery installed, you could do a backup of the device from recovery and share the files

don't share your EFS partition because it contains your unique IMEI/ESN number, and sometimes devices break if you flash someone else's EFS partition. don't share your userdata partition obviously

(if you can't figure out which is the EFS partition from the WAY #2 image, or how to do a system dump, I just need the following partitions and partition layout)

What I need:

1) Following partitions

BOOT - contains ramdisk info necessary to compile a working boot image

RECOVERY - not that necessary, but more info is useful

SYSTEM - probably contains modem libraries not present in the v500 system partition

2) Partition Layout

needed to compile a working ROM

more info is better... so a complete system dump (minus EFS and userdata) would be great

thanks for helping...
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
Thanks for posting....

Slightly strange values...

VK810 (LTE):

BOARD_BOOTIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 25165824 # 24M
BOARD_RECOVERYIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 25165824 # 24M
BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 2248146944 # 2114M
BOARD_USERDATAIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 11517558784 #10984
BOARD_FLASH_BLOCK_SIZE := 131072 # (BOARD_KERNEL_PAGESIZE * 64)

V500 (wifi):

BOARD_BOOTIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 23068672 # 22M
BOARD_RECOVERYIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 23068672 # 22M
BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 880803840 # 840M

BOARD_USERDATAIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 6189744128 # 5.9G
BOARD_FLASH_BLOCK_SIZE := 131072 # (BOARD_KERNEL_PAGESIZE * 64)

can you post the output of the below command? Want to verify the BOARD_FLASH_BLOCK_SIZE settings

cat /proc/mtd

EDIT1:

Who wants to be a guinea pig for my first cm-11.0 build? (requires you to have TWRP recovery)

0) Post here saying that you are testing the ROM. If someone else posted, then wait and see what happens

1) Perform a backup in TWRP recovery

2) Did I say to perform a backup?

3) Flash the cm-11 zip file in TWRP recovery. the boot.img is already LOKI patched

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4) Reboot

See if the device starts up properly.

If it doesn't, then go back to TWRP recovery and restore your backup

Risky? Maybe. If you are afraid, then don't flash it and wait for someone else to do it.....
[G Pad 8.3 General] traccdma:
I tested the download and it seems there is a device name mismatch somewhere:

installing '/extenal_sd/cm-11-20140512-UNOFFICIAL-vk810_loki.zip'

checking for MD5 file...

skipping MD5 check no MD5 file found

This package is for "vk810" devices; this is a "altev"

E: Error executing updater binary in zip

error flashing zip

failed
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
probably.... vk810 is the device name, altev is the model/board/product name... probably a mismatch somewhere.....

I'll recompile when I get home

(v500 = awifi = wifi only version, v510 = palman = GPE version)
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
i think we should stick with v500/v510/vk810 convention.....

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48103469&postcount=22

from this, it looks like the recovery image needs to be fixed...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48331517&postcount=10

for now, I've manually edited the META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script to include "altev" as part of the check

0) Post here saying that you are testing the ROM. If someone else posted, then wait and see what happens

1) Perform a backup in TWRP recovery

2) Did I say to perform a backup?

3) Flash the cm-11 zip file in TWRP recovery. the boot.img will be LOKI-patched during the flash (which means don't use my previous upload where I pre-patched the boot.img)

http://d-h.st/tAq

4) Reboot

See if the device starts up properly.

If it doesn't, then go back to TWRP recovery and restore your backup

Risky? Maybe. If you are afraid, then don't flash it and wait for someone else to do it.....
[G Pad 8.3 General] traccdma:
with cm-11-20140513-unofficial-vk810.zip:

set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed

E: error executing updater binary in zip

error flashing zip

updating partition details...

tried booting it anyway and it brings up LG logo once, powers off/back on, and boots up to recovery (TWRP) on its own
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/how-to-fix-a-broken-rom-flash-in-certain-kitkat-roms/

hmm, not sure why TWRP is complaining. need to investigate tomorrow. if the update_script failed, then the boot.img wasn't patched, so the new boot image won't boot at all.

were you able to restore from nandroid backup?

you also try replacing the update-binary in the ROM with this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2532300
[G Pad 8.3 General] traccdma:
that got much further and even booted into CyanogenMod 11 with the VZW Gpad V810!!

After unzipping your file, overwriting the update-binary file in meta-inf\com\google\android with the file from the thread you posted, it said successful. Rebooted once while it said Android is updating app xxx of xxx, then Welcome to CyanogenMod

Seems to be missing drivers though. First boot seemed stable except it didn't recognize Verizon mobile data (or SIM card). I was in there at least 10 minutes. In settings, I used the slider to try and turn on wifi, but it never turned blue and a few seconds later it reverted back off. I slid bluetooth on, and it did the same thing and went into a boot loop. It gets to the android desktop for about 5 seconds then reboots. I wiped cache and dalvik cache and it got no further.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Drgravy:
whenever that happens get a recovery log, They are very helpful
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
good to hear...

need two things:

system dump of stock ROM.

The proprietary libs I'm using right now is from v500 which probably doesn't have the radio libs. maybe wifi/bt driver is different too

logs

As Drgravy said, logs are helpful. Recovery log, /proc/last_kmsg from kernel boot, ...
[G Pad 8.3 General] NICG:
Sorry been a little busy but here you go.

Stock Rooted System IMG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rpxmbp1lgb5a4k9/system.img
[G Pad 8.3 General] traccdma:
Please post step-by-step dirctions or a link showing how to get the logs you need, and I'll be glad to post or send via private message...
[G Pad 8.3 General] Drgravy:
there are plenty of guides on xda on how to do that (you might need to search a little) or there is an app for that, search for syslog on the play store

now for a recovery log in twrp just goto: Advanced > copy log to sd
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
typically you need to set up adb in your computer to pull the logs

the "setting up adb" step here should be generic and works for v500 as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2575783

Steps 2 & 3 of the thread below would be useful to see why wifi/bt/LTE doesn't work... you could probably get load to recovery and grab last_kmsg as well

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520508

for recovery log, when you flash inside recovery and fail, usually the log file is saved to a location. use adb to get it

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/24120-how-to-get-a-log-from-twrp/
[G Pad 8.3 General] ansme:
hopefully they get a cm 11 going u have another person to test roms just send me a message
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
btw, "0) Xperia Root by cubeundcube" works for me, offline root

vk810 4.2.2 stock rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886460&highlight=4+2+2

yes, i've managed to get my hands on a vk810
[G Pad 8.3 General] NICG:
O very nice didn't really like using kingo root becuase imei thing being reported but did anyways. Always nice to have another method. Thank you. Don't really have time right now to look at it but can you unroot with that method? I know kingo you can so was just wondering if ever needed to go back to full stock for warranty.

Sent from my VK810 4G
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
there is an option within the tool to unroot, haven't tried it

you could always reset to stock recovery then do a hard reset to remove traces of root (*Settings has a field called "Root status", dunno if this value is reset when you unroot)
[G Pad 8.3 General] drifter3179:
Testers

Message me if you need testers i am eager to see a great rom rollout i am already rooted via kingo and twrp recovery Is installed already made backup ready to flash...
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
sure. i'll probably create a new thread @ the dev subforum to keep things easier to track

I've flashed my own build, looks like there's some problem with the power supply driver (bq24262) and missing wifi driver, ROM is unstable. will look at it further tomorrow
[G Pad 8.3 General] ikenvape:
Oh man that would be awesome. I sold off my v500 because vzw gave the 810 for free. Running xposed. Never ran this stock and so far the battery is a hog. Best of luck to you PW!
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
[MENTION=3022039]ikenvape[/MENTION], [MENTION=5794193]drifter3179[/MENTION], going to move the CM build over to a new thread

once it is stable (mostly trying to fix the LTE), then i'll build omni + multiwindow

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2759270
[G Pad 8.3 General] tagleda:
Stock 4.4.2

I need help, is there a stock update to kit kat for the VK810? I can't find it anywhere. Don't want to be stuck on 4.2.2...
[G Pad 8.3 General] NICG:
I could be mistaken but I don't think verizon has put out an update to kitkat with the v810 verzion of the g pad. Please correct me if I am wrong.
[G Pad 8.3 General] joeminati:
You are correct. Seems like Verizon has acted out again in not updating their software. Seems that's the only certainty Verizon does now a days.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[G Pad 8.3 General] bruderhood15:
Probably a stupid question but, if I'm not interested in using cell data and only WiFi on the vk810 Verizon model, would it be possible to flash a ROM that is meant for a WiFi only model onto the vk810?
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
Only custom ROM for vk810 (so far) is the cm11 that I built (GPS and LTE doesn't work). If you don't care about GPS and want a cleaner faster ROM, use it. No one has gotten a v500-wifi-only ROM to work on the vk810 afaik

Otherwise, just keep airplane mode on( you can still switch on/off Bluetooth/WiFi individually in airplane mode)

Anyways, the T-Mobile free 200mb data works on this device, why not get that?
[G Pad 8.3 General] Skizzy034:
Will a v500 rom at least boot up do you know? If so, I can work with that. I'm currently only using wifi so LTE support isn't vital for me. I would use CM11 but stock android is so boring to me.
[G Pad 8.3 General] cobra7361:
Do u think u will ever get 4g to work on ur cm11?

Where is a link to this download?....is that the only things that don't work?

I think there are a lot of ppl that would want this ROM...being its the only one for us

810 guys

Never mind I seen ur link at top of page..
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
Maybe... Going to be out of town for a few days, going to try to debug the issue

It would help if Verizon releases the KitKat update
[G Pad 8.3 General] cobra7361:
Thank u for all ur work...

Much appreciated
[G Pad 8.3 General] Skizzy034:
Have you heard of any plans of them releasing it anytime soon or at all?
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
no idea... verizon does what verizon wants... which includes neglecting devices because they just don't care
[G Pad 8.3 General] Skizzy034:
Yea. Carriers are p*ssing me off more and more every year. They have the shadiest practices of any corporation. They need some regulation.
[G Pad 8.3 General] drifter3179:
Updates...

It's actually up to LG from what Verizon says...

it's actually up to Google from what LG says...

Google is closed for the night...

CALL About Update!!!!

1-650-253-0000

Every Call Helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[G Pad 8.3 General] paperWastage:
Um, its not Google's job

Its lg's job. Seeing that they were willing to update the v500, shouldn't be a problem to update the vk810.

All updates for Verizon devices must go through Verizon "testing" (more like b.s. time wasting procedure). Most likely Verizon is taking its sweet time "testing", or they told lg that they won't waste time approving updates(why? Force the user to buy a new tablet with new android is) and stop supporting the vk810
[G Pad 8.3 General] Skizzy034:
That's true. Or LG could have told them not to update because there are new GPads coming out soon and they want us to buy that instead.
[G Pad 8.3 General] drifter3179:
I Know...

That was what I figured There was some sarcasm there in my post, but i figured it couldnt hurt if people where calling asking for the update.

---------- Post added at 08:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 PM ----------

They did say that google has to contact them with the update
[G Pad 8.3 General] rino187:
How do I flash this?
[G Pad 8.3 General] rfrancoi:
VK810 4G

Did you ever get a response? I'm in the same situation.
[G Pad 8.3 General] razgriz8426:
For some reason I can't post in the development forum for CM11, but I would be willing to put up to $20 bounty for a stable fully-functional CM or AOSP build for the VK810. Maybe if we get together a few $100, we can get some more effort put into it.
[G Pad 8.3 General] joeminati:
I second this... I chip in another $20 towards the bounty
[G Pad 8.3 General] sshanky:
I guess nothing that works on the non-LTE version of the G Pad 8.3 will work on our Verizon ones, right? For example, if I didn't care about the cellular radio functionality, could I use some form of root or ROM that works on the non-Verizon variant?
[G Pad 8.3 General] ckburks:
Delete
[G Pad 8.3 General] Udonitron:
Damn...looks like this was abandoned eh?
[G Pad 8.3 General] nowell29:
has anybody got a good rom on the vk810? need stable 4g though.
[G Pad 8.3 General] nowell29:
Checking in. have any of my fellow vk810 users found a rom that works?
[G Pad 8.3 General] sshanky:
I wish!
[G Pad 8.3 General] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Keep an eye out here and in the G Pad 8.3 Android Development in general. I think [MENTION=3580585]N00b-un-2[/MENTION] is working on it, but it's going to be a lot of work to do it the right way, which he's trying to do, so it might be a while.
[G Pad 8.3 General] N00b-un-2:
I have poked around at the code, but I've been very limited on time lately. Rest assured, I am working on it, but don't expect anything new any time soon. I am also working on CM12, but I'm basically coupling my efforts with the device tree with that project. As it stands we have a working ROM (except GPS and 4G) on the most modern KitKat sources.
[G Pad 8.3 General] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I've been feeling better just knowing that someone was dev'ing for the vk810. I took some VERY noobish (dev-wise) stabs for both the S3 and G3 since I wanted to be able to get my feet wet with someone known to work for someone.

To be clear, I don't expect anything from you - not in a negative way, but I know how some people can seem so entitled and I feel I have to be the opposite. Inside I jump up and down but outside I just keep solemnly hopeful. LOL. I also have partook of many a dev's works, quite a bit during times there was no way I could donate. The S3 was the first phone I had where I was able to fully donate to anyone who would accept it that I definitely wanted to. I hadn't been working for a while before that. I still have to catch up with all the G3 and vk810 devs for donations from the holiday season and other expenses.

Thank you for the update, and thanks for working on it!
[G Pad 8.3 General] jedson3614:
Confused

Im really confused unless i'm reading this incorrectly. Maybe i'm just missing some information but it appears the verizon 4.4.2 lg gpad is rooted and has a custom recovery ? I've rooted using stump. Where is the tutorial unlocking the verizons bootloader and installing the twrp custom recovery, I cant find it here.??????? Does anyone ever respond to threads here ?
[G Pad 8.3 General] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Questions go in Q&A.

In the future don't post the same question in two threads.

Don't be so impatient. People have lives and jobs.

Here's what you're looking for. Just use the search function for thread titles with vk810 in it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2726707

Sent from my VK810 4G