[General Questions and Answers] marth141:
If you haven't looked around or read the threads too much, allow me to give you a sit-rep for the LG Volt...

As of present, we have root and we have an unlocked boot loader and we have the ability to use a custom recovery. However, all of these things have exceptions, for lack of a better term.

The root that we have is unknown if it's a 100% full root. As far everyone has seen, TowelRoot gives the user root access and SuperSU is able to install it's binaries, along with BusyBox and all. So, everything right now looks pretty 100%, but it's still uncertain.

The boot-loader, which you should know is basically the controller for whether or not the user is going into the system or the recovery has been unlocked, but the exception is: It looks like the boot-loader is not "full access" unlocked. It would appear that notreal456789 is the only developer really working hard around the LG Volt, however, with the status of the boot-loader not giving us full access, you will notice in his posts that he's been having a very hard time flashing anything.

This last part, the custom recovery, ties back over to the boot-loader issue. Because no one as of present has been able to flash anything with the boot-loader not being 100% usable, no one is able to flash a recovery onto the phone. The best that I've seen happen is we're able to run a custom recovery the same way you would run a live version of linux off a USB drive. Your computer will host the custom recovery and your phone will use it, but it cannot flash. If you did try to flash it, the phone will brick (or something like that).

So that is the situation right now. The biggest issue we've had is that the boot-loader presently is not allowing us to flash anything and no one seems to really know why. The most I've seen is notreal456789 or someone else digging around the addresses and hex within the boot-loader and really just poking around. But, until we're able to figure something out with the boot-loader, all development with the phone is stagnant. Once we can get either the boot-loader to let us flash, or be able to flash a recovery on at all, then we'll see the development begin very fast.

But yeah, until then. This phone is just stuck. It's a very good phone though, by all regards. Other than the biggest bug everyone has talked about being that apps will close when going into something else. This is either a KitKat bug, or a memory issue. Otherwise though, sit back and do whatever reading and research you can if you want to help. If you've never done anything, like myself, probably just better to sit and watch. Enjoy your phone man :)!

Edit: In terms of apps and such, if you decide to just root your phone, be careful with what things you play with. It's safer right now to just not root your phone, but if you do root, be safe with what you do so as not to brick your phone. I've seen at least 3 or 4 times, including myself, this phone bricking for various reasons and going into a USB storage mode only (bricks and the phone becomes a very large 8GB flash drive). So... Word of advice.

Edit 2: In terms of learning, play around with some of your older phones if you have them. Learn from them and once you feel pretty familiar, go to town trying to help out notreal456789 and any other dev working on this phone :)