yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
the G2 isnt our phone, not the same at all. Loki doesnt work after the most recent 4.4 android update. The recovery you flashed is for a different phone.

On the subject of a recovery for the ls740 i just got the the one i compiled to work for our phone.

cwm-based recovery v6.0.3.7

You can run this in fastboot without flashing it if you like, or you could also flash it as your main recovery if you wish. I am just booting it in fastboot myself. This should backup all the partitions to the sdcard. It seems fine on mine so far just waiting for it to generate the md5

This is the first and possibly only version i will be compiling and releasing. If there is a major bug i do not know if i will be able to fix it. If you are interested in picking up where i am or collaborating pm me.

You most likely need the bootloader unlocked for this to work.

fastboot boot cwma1.img and it will boot into the recovery. DO NOT FLASH IT AS YOUR RECOVERY, IT DOES NOT WORK.

dropbox link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8verc01kr8gnzq/cwma1.img

Assume anything you do to your phone will brick it.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
I compiled it from cm source and edited it for our phone.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
huh thats new ill have to look into it. Just flash your stock recovery back and you should be fine.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
If you fastboot boot into it, it runs perfect you can make a fullback up the phone to the sdcard.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
yes
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
Dont do that.Thats not how this works
[General Questions and Answers] donjuro:
Why do we still not have our own forum if we have obviously just progressed a bit further than the l90 or g2 mini has?
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
hey! The l90 actually has a few recoveries out that work, twrp, cwm and a philztouch. They also have a cm11 rom being developed! I messed about with the twrp one and made it boot on our phone, but still the same result when you boot into recovery you boot to a black screen. So i have a feeling theres one part that im missing that doesnt let it work right.
[General Questions and Answers] notreal456789:
12
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
No, somebody tried this weeks ago, and only modifying the 4 bytes will brick our phone and it will be unrecoverable. We require the 12 byte one that i made, but nobody wanted to test.

EDIT: This is the modified 12 byte file i made, it apparently also will brick our phones, only had one tester and he said he bricked. Maybe somebody else will come along and know more about arm and aboot than i do and can use this. DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE USING THIS.

Edited out non working link.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
It downloads from there fine for me, try my dropbox link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kx69z4dkgr8h4mc/aboot.bin
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
yeah if you can access download mode you can do this download these 2 links

https://mega.co.nz/#!lAImESRI!fzpKjwS5n0cV73BMkUQNLAUk73xE6lmcc4UmeaDdorE

https://mega.co.nz/#!QdJA2RxK!iLmXWf0LXqbxsUtD6vNmnhhR4pTfJTW2Np3HWE2 _hQo

and follow these instructions, this has worked for everybody whos has been able to get into download mode.
[General Questions and Answers] jetfactor:
LG volt maps/pandora/waze apps auto closing issue

had a curious problem since i've had this phone for the past week... apps such as pandora & waze, or maps & pandora, or sometimes even pandora & camera don't seem to coexist. they will close by themselves. it's super weird.

have any of you had this issue? have any ideas on how to stop apps from auto closing? is this some kit kat thing?! since there's no forum for this phone yet here i didn't know where else to post about this. there's a thread over at androidfurms about it:

http://androidforums.com/lg-volt/859810-how-disable-stop-apps-auto-closing.html
[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Not going to be incredibly helpful here but I've noticed that Skype would auto-close whenever you'd go to any other apps. I my thread reporting it Here, I attempted to see if it was a ram based issue on the phone and attempted to do swap memory to see if I can see any improvement and ended up with a dead phone as well. No download mode, no recovery, no powering, no charging. Very odd. Doing some digging in the android forum, I found someone else had a problem where they were doing some stuff with their Volt and managed to get to a brick where download mode, recovery, charge, and powering on the device at all were unavailable. It's very peculiar and doesn't seem to have a solution to it right now. I'm wondering if there is something with how the LG Volt's memory partitions and hardware was set up that would cause it to reach this end result.

Android forum link here for someone else having the same issue. If anyone could do more digging or find other reports on this phenomena, it would be appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] jetfactor:
thanks for the reply. i don't think it's a RAM issue, at least on my end. this issue occurs when i have plenty of RAM available. i must say it's quite annoying. i drive a lot for work and a properly working navigational system + music playing is crucial. i came from an LF F3 and never had this issue. i'm reconsidering swapping back to the F3 til this problem has found a fix.
[General Questions and Answers] JustAnotherUser69245:
You cant try TowelRoot idk if someone mentioned it yet thats how i rooted my lg volt

Just search TowelRoot Apk Download Install And reboot even though it says no reboot required you should
[General Questions and Answers] jetfactor:
thanks, i'll give this a shot.
[General Questions and Answers] demoncamber:
Is there a way to unlock this phone to work with Tmobile?

Sent from my d801/20e kdz.
[General Questions and Answers] monsieur_beau19:
I keep getting a secure boot error when trying to load stock recovery or factory reset my device. Is there a fix for this? I want to reset this device but my bootloader is locked.
[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Fix for No Download, No Recovery?

Hey everyone. I was browsing around when I happened upon this thread on android forums. A proposed fix on LG phones having no download or recovery. I'm right now unable to test this myself since my last bricked LG volt is being sent back to Virgin today.. If anyone has a still bricked LG Volt would they mind looking into this and letting us know how it goes? I'm unable to post links right now due to my "new" status. So, the thread on android forums goes under the name of "Test a working lg740 cwm-based recovery v6.0.3.7" While the link they're referring to in the thread goes to here.
[General Questions and Answers] notreal456789:
semi briked phone

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[General Questions and Answers] notreal456789:
mako-kk-kernel

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[General Questions and Answers] notreal456789:
bricked phone lg volt

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[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Were you able to test on a different computer? Could be some issues with USB ports..
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Damn no custom recovery
[General Questions and Answers] johnsweb:
Has someone tried to unlock LG VOLT LS740 by unlock code?

I want to unlock my Volt LS740 and I have tried all the method to enter the unlock code from this site blog.unlockcode4u.com/2012/05/unlocking-steps-for-most-lg-phones.html and none of them work.

Has anyone found the sequence to enter the unlock code of this phone?

Any help would be appreciate :)

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Great! Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
Coming from an s2 t989, I absolutely love this phone. Hard to believe I paid 400 for that piece of **** as opposed to 79 on the boost network. Great service everywhere. Although 4g LTE from boost isn't available in my city..yet
[General Questions and Answers] lil-g-gamegenuis:
new volt update

there has been a new update for the lg volt released at around 12:PM CST.

the judging from the file name it updated the software from 3.17 to 4.08 (filename is LS740ZV3_17_to_ZV4_08_inc). the update is 236.2 MB

i haven't updated yet so i don't know what it adds or changes. but i'm going to update now.

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OK so the android version is still the same (4.4.2)

and i still have root so it must have only been bug fixes

unless it updated some off the bloatware or something
[General Questions and Answers] robles4242:
Just rooted LS740 Volt.... Newbie

What do i do now? Any custom ROMS? Must have apps? IM NEW, but willing and wanting to learn!!
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
Yeah i was the one working on the dev stuff, nobody else seemed interested in helping me. NotReal just copy pasted from my posts and didnt give credit. The "poking around in hex" i tried was the modification that works on many other lg phones. By changing the 4 or 12 bytes on other phones you can disable the secure boot security. This method does not seem to work on our phones. It appears that out phone ay have a security check in place that all these other phones do not. Deleting the laf and booting into fastboot you can boot the cwm i made for our phone. It's real enough to create backups and restore them.
[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Ah right, I forgot to mention danhalen1, user primarily at Android Forums who has also been doing quite a bit of work as well. So. robles4242, if you want to learn, probably talk with danhalen1 or notreal456789. Or really, anyone else who looks like they've made even a little chisel in the LG Volt modding project. But, when it came to the hex editing part that danhalen1 has worked on, I knew this whole experience was going to go over my head real fast (I'm just a freshman software student right now any how, I don't know too much stuff).

So like I say, best you can do right now is study android and how it works and if you run into the cash, grab a throw away phone you can work mods with and use to experiment and learn.

Also dan, I'd like to say thanks to you and and really, all of the developers who have still been trying hard with the LG Volt modding scene. It's a great phone that would do even better with custom roms, the unfortunate part is what I feel is LG trying to maintain proprietary security.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
No worries friend :) Its just disappointing that lg changed something about our phone to make it different from the others. The hex edit basically is supposed to disregard the secureboot error. So you can run a non stock kernel, it will error but will disregard the error. It works on many other phones we share somewhat similar aboot's with. But when modified on our phone, it seems to hardbrick it. Im not even sure why they have abootb.....it seems like it wont default to it anyway. Theres nothing really left i can do at this point thats in my skillset. I was hoping some more knowledgeable people would come along and maybe pickup where i left off. Id hate for this phone to end up with no development, its cheap and plenty powerful.
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
There's my benchmark after a fresh boot. Not sure if its useful or not but there you go
[General Questions and Answers] lil-g-gamegenuis:
hmm...

for some reason its asking me to install again... i'm going to do it, wish me luck
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
What carrier do you have dude?
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
Didn't receive it
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
U scare me. I want to root my phone but how do i make sure that i dont brick my phone? I know i shouldnt flash a recovery but can i edit the platform.xml file or use the sdfix app so that i can write to the sd card?
[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
Just be very careful with what you play around with. Remember that root changes cannot be undone, hence why we want a recovery.

In my case, when I bricked my first LG Volt, I was trying to do memory modifications using SWAP memory to try and see if that will fix the memory issues causing apps to close and not reopen. Considering that the LG Volt itself tries to use its own built in memory over SD memory might have messed up that venture. So. I told my phone to factory reset and the rest is history.

Just take precautions as you go along and ask yourself, "How much changes will this do to my phone?"

Unfortunately, I haven't read how much the others had done with their phone that had caused it to brick, I just know they ended up having a brick. If I remember right, at least one of those events just happened without reason. So, it might just be an LG error on that part.

My own advice is to always do a factory reset from the recovery menu rather than from inside the OS (which is what I did).

To finish in my own opinion, there isn't too much reason to root when we don't have much else going on with the phone. I guess "Battery Doctor"'s CPU management is pretty nice. Titanium backup is always a good root tool to have. But otherwise, there isn't a lot of reason to root if we don't have a reliable custom recovery going or even a custom rom.

:) Just be safe with any modifications you do and you should be fine all throughout.

Edit: About the platform.xml, giving yourself permissions to write to your SD card is by all means not a bad thing. In fact, KitKat's first big problem people have with it is that it removed our right to use our SD card (other than reading it) So if you do that, use shown to work methods. There is an App on the market.. lets see... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en this one right here. This one I know works. Afterwords, enjoy using your SD card for whatever you're trying to use it for, which, I've also found there isn't too much to use it for other than emulators.
[General Questions and Answers] spunky168:
I used the "towelroot" method to successfully root my VM prepaid LG Volt which I picked up from Amazon for $129.99 after my Sprint contract expired. I debloated all the unnecessary softwares and my phone has been running great for 2 weeks. Hardly needs a charge once to twice a week. Bought another LG Volt for Boost mobile for $79.99 from Amazon to have on hand and to experiment with.

"towelroot" method instructions are as above quoted link. Also available at:

http://androidforums.com/f90-all-things-root/853153-guide-rooting-lg-volt-ls740-lg-f90.html

Anyone know if there is a CWM recovery available for this phone or method to "unlock" this phone??

Spunky168

"The Original Taepo Dong"
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
I posted earlier in this thread about this.

Heres the method to access fastboot

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54458520#post54458520

Heres my post with the cwm i created

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54590417#post54590417

You can only fastboot boot into recovery, flashing it will not work. But it will allow you to make and restore a backup just fine.
[General Questions and Answers] Jeremy HIll:
Regarding Root

When I installed towelroot it worked and it ran all the root apps I even overclocked it and it handled everything great, however I couldn't find a way to boot into recovery mode to install a custom ROM, maybe someone more experienced than me can find a way to boot into recovery mode. Also the phone scored higher than the S2 with root and without root but with root the lg volt was recognized by antutu as a "high-end" device. I have experimented greatly with the Lg volt in all aspects, I almost cried once because i install a rom and tried to boot into recovery and my phone didn't turn on, also using SuperSU i have unrooted my device and than rooted it again using towel root. Overall it's a great device out performing many high end devices out there especially when overclocked.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
How did you OC?
[General Questions and Answers] robles4242:
update just came in

I was just alerted of the update and currently hit my data cap just last night but somehow it downloaded on its own i just had to hit reboot and it auto installed.

Anyone know what the update contained?
[General Questions and Answers] Kroniq:
I cannot get it to install... Goes into download mode and installs a quarter of the way and reboots, leaving me to have to download it again. I finally gave up
[General Questions and Answers] Edgar.STR.:
Update??

At work I notice notification bar. Downloaded update ready to instal. Phone went into instal mode, I had to keep working, next thing I know Phone working as usual. I check if any updates were made but can't really tell. Does anyone knows what was the update and how I would know got any update. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] azotre:
More so, will the update unroot my phone made by towel. If so, how do I get rid of the update
[General Questions and Answers] lostdata:
yes, I used the towelroot method to root and had supersu set to keep root but lost it anyway, tried to re-root with towelroot and it now says this device is not supported, i tried downloading again from towelroot and still getting the device is not supported.

There are no noticeable changes, still 4.4.2, and my memory usage with the bloatware no longer frozen is still only sitting at around 500mb. If I were you I would hold off.

If anyone has the update and has managed to root please let me know.
[General Questions and Answers] Edgar.STR.:
update..update.

If in fact my phone had any update, is still on 4.4.2 ,no noticeble changes, wonder what type of update it was, well still hoping we get upgrade to 4.4.4 soon or I will say bye bye to Lg Volt and move on to a Nexus 5.
[General Questions and Answers] NeoGraven:
Our a HTC Desire 816 from VM =) That's going to be my next phone ;)
[General Questions and Answers] sellersj27:
I had the same thing happen.... Automatically updated and I lost root. Hopefully we can find another exploit.
[General Questions and Answers] NeoGraven:
Most likely, that it's what the update is for.. removing root. I'm on Boost, haven't seen an update
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Thats wack [emoji35]
[General Questions and Answers] mountaindweller:
Lost root yesterday after update :(

Sadly, My LG Volt (VM) lost root after receiving an update yesterday. This great performing but relatively inexpensive phone was easy to root using "Towelroot". I had a working wifi tethering app on my Volt that has since stopped working due to loss of root access. If anyone hears of a method that will root a post update Volt please let the community know. Thank you! Incidentally, I tried using Framaroot, Kingo and of course Towelroot without success.
[General Questions and Answers] robles4242:
I did not loose my towelroot when my phone updated. I wonder why i was the only lucky one? Can anyone tell me how to get SPC code? All methods are failing for me! I cannot get a COM port connection via usb to try any flash. Ugh.
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Thats odd
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
http://androidforums.com/volt-all-things-root/872005-rom-zv4-updated-stock-rom.html

This will outline what you need to do. You need to downgrade using flashtool and download mode to genericls740 build. Then root, enable fastboot, and boot my cwm recovery and then you can flash the z4 zip donjuro made.
[General Questions and Answers] robles4242:
I finally got my MSL SPC NUMBER. in the ##data# menu is there any suggested changes to be made? Im googleing but cant find much rather changing IPs to all 0s and disable rev tunneling. Im iniating a speed test but i belive that removed my capped data throotle.
[General Questions and Answers] mountaindweller:
My thanks to danhalen1

This will outline what you need to do. You need to downgrade using flashtool and download mode to genericls740 build. Then root, enable fastboot, and boot my cwm recovery and then you can flash the z4 zip donjuro made.[/QUOTE]

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my LG Volt dilemma. I've downloaded the LG flash tool but have no idea how to use it (confused by phonemode references such as DIAG, EMERGENCY, etc. Also do not know where to find a genericls740 build in order to regain root. Thanks again for your time.
[General Questions and Answers] danhalen1:
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my LG Volt dilemma. I've downloaded the LG flash tool but have no idea how to use it (confused by phonemode references such as DIAG, EMERGENCY, etc. Also do not know where to find a genericls740 build in order to regain root. Thanks again for your time.[/QUOTE]

Sorry didnt realize the flash tool stuff wasnt in the link i posted.

http://androidforums.com/volt-all-things-root/861292-how-restore-phone-dl-mode.html

That should do you.
[General Questions and Answers] NeoGraven:
When I got to work today I had a system update available. Haven't installed it yet as I need root. I still have towelroot installed, will it work again after I update?
[General Questions and Answers] sellersj27:
I upgraded.... Lost root and will have to downgrade to get it back. I would hold off!!
[General Questions and Answers] NeoGraven:
Cool, will do!
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Will it work if u use the ota rootkeeper app
[General Questions and Answers] Ph0enix_216:
Duly noted. Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] fastracer:
Is there a way to stop the upgrade message from appearing in the notifications? Edit the build.prop? Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
So I just got my LG volt today and was hoping to get updated on the dev status of it, root and recovery mainly.
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
U can freeze it via titanium backup pro
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
You can also remove the boot flag from it, a lil more stable
[General Questions and Answers] fastracer:
Thanks for the info....how do I do that? (sorry been out of the loop for a bit lol)

Thanks :)
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
I did it on my V8, ill check it tonight and get back to ya
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1998378 So this seems to be another way of doing it that is a tad easier. The way I did it was with ROM Toolbox.

Go to Autostart manager, top right, show system apps

Find GoogleServicesFramework and untick SystemUpdateService
[General Questions and Answers] kc12:
no root after update

same here. I'm pretty mad at myself for letting the phone update. I should have known better!! towelroot now states the phone is not compatible. :mad::mad:

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Sorry didnt realize the flash tool stuff wasnt in the link i posted.

http://androidforums.com/volt-all-things-root/861292-how-restore-phone-dl-mode.html

That should do you.[/QUOTE]

thanks for the link. I'll give it a try too.

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I have two VM Volts. One was rooted and updated, so I'm working on restoring that. The other one hasn't been rooted yet and hasn't received the V4 update.

Does anyone know if I'll be able to root the unrooted phone if I let the update install first?

And, does anyone know what the update actually consists of? Anything import? ect.....?
[General Questions and Answers] Ph0enix_216:
Which stock/bloat apps are safe to remove? A lot of them are hogging a good chunk of RAM.
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
A good practice is freeze them first to see if they break anything.
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Where do i download a driver? Lg doesnt provide it
[General Questions and Answers] hunterk11:
Adb driver?
[General Questions and Answers] Child's Play:
Yes
[General Questions and Answers] jglm4u:
Ok I rooted my phone and uninstalled couple system apps. But I didn't uninstalled non of LG apps .for some reason I don't have them no more after rebooting my phone! I love quick memo, now it force closes because I guess I don have it. What can I do to get all the LG apps back? Thanks in advance