[Miscellaneous Android Development] soulife:
i decided to put EVERYTHING for this phone under one roof.. the drivers, root, roms, tweaks, tutorials, links etc etc, all consolidated in one spot.. this way, anyone that bought or buys this phone dont have to scour the interwebs to find what theyre looking for. normally, its fair to assume if youre here, you have some degree of knowledge about everything to follow. however, im going to over simplify some or eventually most stuff for, example, family or friends that ask me to "jailbreak" their phone then have no idea what to do once i do. or, for anyone else that meets the same criteria ("budding android modders") lol. :good:

at the moment though, i dont have time to get everything up all at once, so i decided to create a placeholder and upload a rom in the meantime.. theres more to come as time permits..

ROM

deodexed

(now you can switch from "dalvik" to "art" in "developer options" without all the FCs.. the pros and cons with odex vs odexless roms goes back and fourth. having an odexed rom can make your phone a little faster, and free up more room for apps and stuff which is why most if not all phones come odexed (eventually, you can click here to see how to free up room by getting the most of your sdcard, so the free space you lose being unodexed wont really matter), but it has a few setbacks when it comes to modding your phone depending on what youll be doint to/with it now that its rooted (wil discuss more in detail later). If youre coming from another phone with a custom rom, and became spoiled by having developer options already in settings for you. or, you just wanna try art and/or have access to more features (this will later be moved when i explain how to root and setting up drivers, since debugging becomes relevant), getting the menu back is pretty simple. just open settings and go down to "about phone", then click on "software information". on the following screen click "build number" 7 times and if you did it right a popup will display welcoming you to the world of development lol. so simplified its "Settings>About phone>software info", click "Build number" 7x.. "Developer options" is now in settings again. in developer options ("settings>developer options") youll see "select runtime", where you can do just that).

added root and enabled adb root (you need to download your superuser app of choice though).

added busybox with symlinks.

fixed a few invalid permissions. (come to think, im gonna add them back jic its relevant to other carriers besides boost mobile)

and removed some useless symlinks. (come to think, im gonna add them back jic its relevant to other carriers besides boost mobile)

fixed kitkat sdcard write restriction.

this is a "rough draft", there is a few more little tweaks i wanna add (ie: once the device is activated on boost mobile, it downloads all the boost related apps, and those apps reinstall even after a fresh wipe/format/rom installation. its inconvenient if you switch carriers) but i just wanted to get a link up, this is a great phone for the price (only $40, when the HTC Vision still sells for $100 at a fraction of the performance), but it seems like there is close to zero development being done probably because of that (ie; i couldnt find 1 single rom for this device, its not exactly a well known, high demand, highly advertised device. but imho that doesnt mean the 27 or so rooted owners shouldnt have some easy options). unfortunately, even though i stumbled across the kernel source code for w5c (ironically on a LG l70 board) my laptop would probably take days to compile from source, so in the meantime ill tweak the stock image, and maybe eventually see if i can hack some cyanogenmod goodness together.. ill make this thread more professional as time progresses, as well as add an odexed version (definately the stocks version, but i might even redo odexing the right way as well, i donno yet because i dont see the benefit, its just my OCD acting up because i know LG did it half assed), and MAYBE a completly stock rom w/ no mods (which seems redundant since most people keep a "stock" recovery backed up.. but if you were like me and didnt know how easily the bootloader could be unlocked, so you just rooted and started playing with stuff, it might come in handy to have a stock rom lying around.)

Downloads

http://Mediafire@3452205068/download/%75c%749%6D%6459%77%659%78sl%78/lgls620.zip

http://ADrive@1093744771/public/%42%54%44s%42%56/lgls620.zip

http://Mega@2587222166/#!KZFkxb5K!zXW_1p_WMcR_EenrGPoLEgo_-OURR2i7tHSa6GCk5j8

MD5: cc88f51b3e483c4a8c3b974d6f87ceec

File Name: lgls620.zip

(google url shortener didnt like my link and claimed it was a TOS violation, then mediafire deleted the file claiming the same, all within only a few hours of uploading.. so i apologize for the obscured non clickable download links. i never had this problem before so i dont know what they dont like or how theyre deciding its a violation, and if i make the urls clickable xda automatically un-obscures them, so untill i figure out what they dont like or how they go about making that decision, im gonna assume its a bot. i tried an anonymous referer but then mediafire falsely claims the file was removed for violating TOS, without the referer it works fine though:confused: (completely unrelated, keep that in mind.. if you ever try downloading something on mediafire that says its been removed, and you were sent there by a referer, try reloading the mediafire link independently before giving up on the dl, i imagine they assume if your being refered anonymously its pirate related so they block you)

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